The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia called on the United Nations Security Council to exercise today, more than ever, its legal role and assume moral responsibilities regarding the Syrian crisis. The Kingdom also urged the Security Council to initiate an urgent call to stop violence, opt for all means to halt Syrian killing machines, save civilians trapped in Homs, Hama, and all other Syrian cities. The Saudi Call also highlighted the need for urgent delivery of medical and humanitarian assistance to the affected civilians, provision of all the required support to the mission of International and Arab Envoy Kofi Annan, to work towards a political solution that guarantees the right to a decent life, prosperity and security for the Syrian people, emanating from the rules of overall national unity in accordance with the roadmap developed by the Arab League and endorsed by United Nations General Assembly, and the deployment of the joint Arab and UN forces to maintain security and peace in Syria. These remarks were made in an address delivered at UN General Assembly here yesterday by the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Ambassador Abdullah bin Yahya Al-Mua'lemi. In his address, Al-Mua'lemi said that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states' warmly welcome the appointment of Kofi Annan as Joint Special Envoy of Secretaries-General of the United Nations and the Arab League, and believe that his selection due to his global reputation and distinct efficiency and integrity reflects the interest of international community to devote all energies to reach a solution to the Syrian crisis and bring about the end of the sufferings of the Syrian people according to the Arab League initiative and the decision of UN General Assembly No. 253/66, on February 16, 2012. Ambassador Al-Mua'lemi pointed out that since the failure of UN Security Council to make a decision on the situation in Syria because of the regrettable practice of veto rights by some members of the Council, the Syrian regime considers that it has received the green light to crush unarmed citizens in Syria and their revolution. He stressed that the GCC states are ready to be at the forefront of any joint effort aims to save the Syrian people and strengthen their abilities to protect themselves from an authority which has lost its legitimacy once it killed its citizens, adding that the GCC states hold accountable the international community in general, the Security Council in particular, and powers which have exercised their veto rights for moral responsibility for what is happening now in the streets of Baba Amr and its homes, and they will be held accountable by history and conscience if they do not respond positively to the pleas of the Syrian oppressed people.
