Saudi calls on world community to shoulder its responsibilities to tackle the Syrian crisis

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia called on the world community today to shoulder its ethical and legal responsibilities to tackle all aspects of the Syrian crisis as quickly as need be. In a speech before the 33rd Executive Council of the Organization of Preventing Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Saudi ambassador to the Kingdom of Holland Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Shaaroor, who is also his country's permanent representative to the OPCW, said the world community should hold those who committed brutal crimes in Syria responsible and bring them to justice, describing the recent UN Security Council's resolution to dismantle the Syrian chemical arsenal as a step among others that should be taken to guarantee that the Syrian regime was out of chemical stock. Al-Shaaroor said Saudi Arabia was hopeful to see a more tougher resolution under the 7th Chapter of the United Nations Commission’s Charter against Syria. The Syrian crisis has entered into a serious and sensitive curve amid extraordinary and accelerating circumstances in the world, the ambassador said, adding that Saudi Arabia was among the pioneering countries who called for a mass-destruction weapons free region. He said using chemical weapons in Syria resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands and injury of thousands, bringing to more than 100,000 the number of fatalities in Syria by the fierce killing machine of the Syrian regime. He expressed confidence of Saudi Arabia that the recently-endorsed measures by the UN Security Council on the situation in Syria will fall short of giving the targeted objectives. He concluded that the Syrian regime has crossed all red lines and formed a challenge to the will of the world community and international agreements, hoping that the Syrian regime's evading from punishment would not lead to raising skepticism over the seriousness of being committed to the agreed upon principles in Geneva I conference.