The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has welcomed launching the UN Center for Counter Terrorism and announced a $10 million donation to its budget for three years. This came in a key speech delivered by Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and leader of his country's delegation to the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at a special ceremony to sign the Agreement of Establishing the UN Center for Combating Terrorism, proposed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the International Conference for Counter Terrorism held in Riyadh in 2005 in the presence of more than 60 countries. Prince Saud Al-Faisal described the establishment of the UN Center for Combating Terrorism as the crowning for the efforts of the International Conference on Combating Terrorism during which the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud had proposed the establishment of the center under the patronage of the United Nations. He added that the monarch's proposal had received world-wide support at the time, referring to the Nonalignment Movement, Islamic Cooperation Organization, Arab League, Gulf Cooperation Council, Arab Latin Summit, and Asia Mideast Dialogue. He said the center is the first international organization to be specialized in the combat of terrorism, vowing that Saudi Arabia would spare no effort to provide support for the organization. He signaled the most recent terrorist attack in Norway as an evidence that terrorism has no safe haven country. All people, organizations and countries suffer from the epidemic, he said. Prince Saud Al-Faisal confirmed that terrorism doesn't belong to any religion and doesn't represent the religion or society to which terrorists belong. There are more than 1.5 billion Muslims all over the world who represent a deep-rooted culture which calls for peace, cooperation and tolerance, he added. He said that Saudi Arabia has, as was the case of many countries, suffered from terrorist actions against which the Kingdom's leadership and people gave an example of how to fight the phenomenon.
