Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby, Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and Turkish President Abdullah Gul rallied behind Saudi Arabia’s decision to reject a seat on the UN Security Council.
Elaraby said Saudi Arabia was right in objecting to the Security Council’s lopsided functioning.
“Arab states, including Palestine and Syria, have been the worst victims of the Security Council’s weakness in the last six decades,” he said.
Elaraby’s remarks come a day after Arab nations urged Saudi Arabia to reverse its decision to reject a seat on the 15-nation Security Council.
Arab ambassadors to the UN said it was crucial for Saudi Arabia to represent the Arab and Muslim world on the council “at this important and historical stage, specifically for the Middle East region.”
Saudi Arabia won a prized two-year seat on the Security Council on Thursday, but a day later Riyadh said it would not take it up because of the world body’s double standard on Syria and other Middle East hotspots.
OIC chief Ihsanoglu said Riyadh’s refusal to take its seat would “accelerate the reform process at the Security Council by strengthening its transparency and representativeness.” Ihsanoglu said the OIC has a direct and vital interest in reforming the Security Council and demands a representation in the body that suits their demographic and political weight.
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SOURCE: ARABNEWS
Categories: Asia, Saudi Arabia, United Nations
I to not know why it needed the Syria crises for the Arabs to notice that the UN is useless. I mean 65 years of Palestinian ‘peace processes’ and ‘road maps’ etc. should have been enough to realize that the UN with its undemocratic Security Council is useless. I would suggest not only to ‘not accept’ the seat on the Security Council but rather to lead the exodus of all independently thinking nations from the UN altogether. Then let the 5 permanent members sit alone in their chambers.
a gang of opportunists making futile noise.