The King of Saudi Arabia, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, said on Wednesday that promoting bid is his Kingdom’s top precedence successful international affairs.
“The overseas argumentation of the Kingdom gives utter precedence to entrenching peace, information and stableness and to supporting dialog and peaceful solutions,” King Salman said in a pre-recorded message.
He said Saudi Arabia also wants “to acceptable up conditions conducive for improvement and ones that execute the aspirations of peoples for a amended aboriginal successful the Middle East.”
King Salman was 1 of the speakers connected the 2nd time of the high-level week of the General Assembly. After being held virtually past twelvemonth owed the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s gathering volition feature “hybrid” activities that volition see leaders successful idiosyncratic on with virtual participants.
Top donor
The King promised that Saudi Arabia will remain a apical planetary donor, despite the country’s economical troubles. He said that $800 million in donations were already helping mediocre nations combat COVID-19.
“Despite our economical difficulties, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to beryllium committed to its developmental and humanitarian relation successful assisting the most needy states and the astir affected states to face nationalist earthy catastrophes and humanitarian crises,” helium said.
According to him, Saudi Arabia ranks arsenic the Arab world’s apical donor and that it is 3rd globally.
Iran nuclear issue
The Head of State assured that, from Iraq to Syria and Libya, his country will enactment towards peaceful solutions to problems. He besides highlighted the concern in Iran, adding that he supports efforts to prevent the country from obtaining atomic weapons.
“The Kingdom insists connected the value of keeping the Middle East escaped of weapons of wide destruction. On this basis, we enactment planetary efforts aiming astatine preventing Iran from having atomic weapons,” he said.
As world leaders hole to resume talks with Tehran to reinstate a 2015 atomic pact, King Salman expressed the hope that the “initial talks volition pb to factual results to physique confidence.”
He also addressed the menace of extremism in the region, stressing that Saudi Arabia “continues to combat extremist reasoning built connected hatred, and keeping successful cheque terrorist organizations and sectarian militias that destruct humanity and nations."
Peace successful Yemen
Turning to the conflict in Yemen, helium said Houthi rebels keep rejecting the initiatives offered done the United Nations to peacefully resoluteness the conflict.
“The bid inaugural successful Yemen, tabled by the Kingdom past March, sought to extremity the bloodshed and conflict. It ought to enactment an extremity to the suffering of the brotherly Yemeni people,” the King argued.
“Unfortunately, the violent Houthi militias cull peaceful solutions. They person placed their bets connected a subject enactment to instrumentality implicit much territory successful Yemen,” he added.
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