New York: Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah has urged to speed up the process of taking steps to impose a just solution to the Palestine issue under the United Nations resolutions.
Dr Al Attiyah said at the UN Security Council Open Debate on “The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestine Question” that young Palestinian generation was born with no just solution on the horizon to their cause. He called for a lasting solution based on two-states and withdrawal of Israel to the 1967 borders.
He said the UN Council met to discuss the volatile situation caused by the dangerous escalation of Israeli occupation against Palestinian civilians, resulting in the illegal settlements, suppression and discrimination, depriving them of fundamental rights and freedom as well as sovereignty over their natural resources and particularly vulnerable to attacks by Isreali extremists without any accountability.
Dr Al Attiyah stressed that the Palestinian Cause is important to the region and the world, and is a priority for the Arab nations, saying that it unifies democratic forces in the whole world as long as the international community is not ready to impose a just solution.
He noted that the Palestinian people’s fate is determined by the occupier and the reality of Palestinian life under occupation; and therefore the negotiations lost value because they are conducted without any aims or agreed foundations, referring to Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights and the blockade on the Gaza Strip. He warned that the Israeli scheme of temporal division of Al Aqsa Mosque will lead to a spatial division.
On the Syrian crisis, Dr Al Attiyah said peoples of the region are living another deepened and intensified tragedy, pointing out that the Syria has become an international issue, slamming the international community’s failure to solve it.
The regime in Syria has breached all limits by using chemical weapons and explosive barrels against its own people and committing genocide and mass displacement. No one is lifting a finger, he said, adding that for this reason this regime still exists.
Despite the numerous discussions about the Syrian issue, no one answered to this question: Why we do not provide protection to Syrian civilians ? Why we were not able to provide protection for them? I do not think that there is a satisfying answer to this question! Dr Al Attiyah said.
The Foreign Minister said that there are lots of talks about the fight against terrorism and it is our duty to eradicate it, however, the Syrian people believe that the main problem is that the regime practices terrorism against its own people.
He called for urgent and collective action to implement the Geneva Communique of 30 June 2012 calling for the establishment of a transitional governing body that would “exercise full executive powers to achieve the goals of the Syrian people and the revolution and spare the region and the world the dangers of terrorism.
QNA
