Saudi Gazette report Geneva — Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco urged the UN Human Rights Council to impose a tight embargo on terrorist groups by choking their support networks. In a joint statement before the UN Human Rights Council, the five Arab countries said that terror funding should be stopped, safe havens identified and dismantled and media propaganda glorifying the ideas of terrorist groups countered through well-thought-out strategies that promote shared values of tolerance. The statement also called for measures to save young people from extremist organizations and their deviant ideologies. Presenting the joint statement, Egyptian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Amr Ramadan said these efforts would not succeed unless the marginalization of some sections of society and the hypocrisy in human rights standards in the West are addressed. The grievances of some people and the absence of justice are factors that constitute a favorable climate for the seeds of terrorism to grow, he said. Amr Ramadan said the contemporary world is exposed to successive waves of terrorist acts that take different and variable forms. The statement stressed the critical importance of not linking the criminal and deplorable phenomenon of terrorism with the faiths and religions of people. It called for closer regional and international cooperation to systematically fight terrorism at the economic, social and political levels. The statement emphasized the importance of strengthening the role of the United Nations and its bodies in addressing the phenomenon of terrorism. Saudi Arabia stressed that terrorism has no religion, nationality or homeland, and that this scourge will not stop without international solidarity. These remarks were made by Dr. Khalid Al-Ghannam, a member of the Saudi delegation participating in the the UN Human Rights Council discussion. He said that the Kingdom wanted efforts and measures to be used to prosecute parties involved in such activities and bring them to justice. He said Interpol should be notified about the names of wanted people. Dr. Al-Ghannam highlighted in detail the work and goals of the Muhammad Bin Naif Center for Advice and Care which was established in 2005. The Saudi delegation distributed a list of the most prominent terrorism crimes that occurred in the Kingdom from 1965 to 2015.
