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Saudi Arabia, angered over Mideast, declines Security Council seat
Reuters ^ | Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:58am EDT | Angus McDowall

Posted on 10/18/2013 6:07:33 AM PDT by Dave346

Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented show of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said on Friday it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The kingdom condemned what it called international double standards on the Middle East and demanded reforms in the Security Council.

Riyadh's frustration is mostly directed at Washington, its oldest international ally, which has pursued policies since the Arab Spring that Saudi rulers have bitterly opposed and which have severely damaged relations with the United States, Saudi analysts have said.

Saudi Arabia has also been angered by a rapprochement between Iran, its old regional foe, and the United States, which has taken root since President Barack Obama spoke by telephone last month to the new Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, in the highest-level contact between the two countries in more than three decades.

Citing the Security Council's failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, take steps to end Syria's civil war and to stop nuclear proliferation in the region, Riyadh said the body had instead perpetuated conflicts and grievances.

"Saudi Arabia ... is refraining from taking membership of the U.N. Security Council until it has reformed so it can effectively and practically perform its duties and discharge its responsibilities in maintaining international security and peace," said a Foreign Ministry statement issued on state media.

The conservative Islamic kingdom has traditionally avoided big political statements, preferring to wield its influence as world's top oil exporter, birthplace of Islam and chief Arab ally of the United States behind closed doors.

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1 posted on 10/18/2013 6:07:33 AM PDT by Dave346
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To: Dave346

Barack Obama: diplomatic genius.


2 posted on 10/18/2013 6:08:47 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Don’t forget Clown Prince nobama’s able sidekicks: “what does it matter...” hitlery and the vietnam vet, skerry. Truly, they are a brain trust.


3 posted on 10/18/2013 6:11:14 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Dave346

good

we don’t need SA’s lies


4 posted on 10/18/2013 6:11:30 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: wideawake

Completely not the reason they declined the seat. Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to know their “true motivations” in the Middle East conflicts their involved in. They play both sides like a fiddle.


5 posted on 10/18/2013 6:12:06 AM PDT by o2bfree (Lindsey Graham is left of South Carolina.)
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To: Dave346

The Saudi Royals paid for BHO2’s education at Harvard. They wanted a mole in our government, and they got a con man.

I have lost count on who and how many BHO2 has double-crossed, but I know it is many.


6 posted on 10/18/2013 6:12:47 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: wideawake

LOLOL!!


7 posted on 10/18/2013 6:13:32 AM PDT by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITIZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: Dave346

Keep on fracking. Drill baby drill.


8 posted on 10/18/2013 6:16:07 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: Dave346

Amusing to see Saudi Arabia, that land of religious freedom and tolerance, the cradle of woman’s rights, the home of the 9/11 hijackers and the state supported Wahhabi that financed and motivated them, is giving the world moral instruction. How very special.


9 posted on 10/18/2013 6:17:22 AM PDT by allendale
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To: SatinDoll

obama loves the double cross, but he is going to piss off the wrong person


10 posted on 10/18/2013 6:18:27 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Dave346

The suadis are the one genetically marked group of people who whould just be exterminated for the earths population.

Amalek.


11 posted on 10/18/2013 6:18:45 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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To: Dave346

Obama, Clinton, Kerry.

Curly, Larry, Moe.


12 posted on 10/18/2013 6:19:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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"Riyadh's frustration is mostly directed at Washington, its oldest international ally, which has pursued policies since the Arab Spring that Saudi rulers have bitterly opposed and which have severely damaged relations with the United States, Saudi analysts have said."

And when have they cared a fig to stop the rampant wahabism going on in their country that has spawned most of the Islamofascist terrorism going on in the world today. That being said, why should we care what they think of our foreign policy? It's not our job to end the civil war in Syria. Let's not forget where the majority of the 9/11 hijackers came from.
13 posted on 10/18/2013 6:20:28 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Dave346

Let the Saudis spill their blood in their own backyard for a change.


14 posted on 10/18/2013 6:23:06 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Dave346
In a peaceful show of international justice, the Syrian government should have been overthrown, Assad killed in the street by the mob and the Saudi gas pipeline for Europe should already being built. But then the nasty, nasty Russians told our Keystone King "Nyet!" in order to keep the monopoly on gas in the European market.

Sorry, Saudis, you put your bet on the tiddly winks player in the game of international chess.

15 posted on 10/18/2013 6:23:26 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: o2bfree
Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to know their “true motivations”
in the Middle East conflicts their involved in. They play both sides like a fiddle.
true...while spreading their vile / evil & very ancient...
death / personality cult thought out the world...

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16 posted on 10/18/2013 6:28:14 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Dave346

If the world would stop doing business with these idiots, they would be irrelevant very quickly. We should have started 30 years ago.


17 posted on 10/18/2013 6:37:57 AM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Dave346

KSA is absolutely right here. (broken clock?) The UN does nothing except create stalemates and perpetual conflict.


18 posted on 10/18/2013 6:52:56 AM PDT by wrencher
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To: Dave346

Reminds me of the Soviets Security Council walkout during the Korean crisis in 1950.


19 posted on 10/18/2013 6:55:30 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: o2bfree
Completely not the reason they declined the seat. Saudi Arabia doesn’t want the world to know their “true motivations” in the Middle East conflicts their involved in. They play both sides like a fiddle.

Exactly. They keep their friends close, and their enemies even closer.

20 posted on 10/18/2013 6:56:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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