Saudi Arabia rejects seat on UN Security Council
Posted: Oct 18, 2013 4:09 AM CDT Updated: Oct 18, 2013 4:52 AM CDT

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia is rejecting its seat on the U.N. Security Council and says the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts.

The move came just hours after the kingdom was elected as one of the Council's 10 nonpermanent members.

In a statement carried on Friday by the official Saudi Press Agency, the Saudi Foreign Ministry says the Council has failed in its duties toward Syria.

It says this alleged failure enabled Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime to perpetrate the killings of its people, including with chemical weapons, without facing any deterrents or punishment.

The Ministry also says the Council has not been able to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over the past decades and has failed to transform the Middle East into a zone free of weapons of mass destruction.

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Probably a woman sat in that chair before them.


(Actually Saudi Arabia is all pissed off that the USA didn't go to war in Syria like instructed.)

prolly no too late.... 😟

I'm sure Obama couldn't understand why the Saudis didn't just blame all that on Bush...

SA is pretty much right. Unfortunately there are too many sub and super powers who will stand up to the UN.

So, I guess SA can put its money where its mouth is by openly supporting the Syrian insurgents and using its military to bomb Assad. Yeah, right...

The House of Saud is the proverbial "head of the snake".

It should've been removed on 9/12/01.

You can't participate in corruption on a mass scale until you get a seat at the big boy table.

Missed opportunity.

damn straight..... that's why I'm angling to get on the the death panel