Saudi Arabia to join UN Security Council Thursday

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Saudi Arabia to join UN Security Council Thursday
10/17/13
Saudi Arabia to join UN Security Council Thursday

Nigeria, Chad, Lithuania and Chile also running unopposed for temporary place on powerful panel

UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly elects five new members to the Security Council on Thursday and the winners are virtually certain because there are no contested races — Nigeria, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Lithuania and Chile.

Chad, Saudi Arabia and Lithuania have never served on the UN’s most powerful body while Nigeria and Chile have both been on the council four times previously. 

Security Council seats are highly coveted because they give countries a strong voice in matters dealing with international peace and security, such as Syria, sanctions against Iran and North Korea and the UN’s far-flung peacekeeping operations.

The 15-member council includes five permanent members with veto power — the US, Russia, China, Britain and France — and 10 nonpermanent members elected for two-year terms.

Seats are allocated by region, and regional groups nominate candidates. There are often hotly contested races. In 2007, for example, a runoff between Guatemala and Venezuela went 47 rounds before Panama was finally offered, and elected, as the Latin America candidate.

This year, there were initially two candidates for a West African seat but Gambia dropped out last week in favor of Nigeria.

To win, each country must obtain support of two-thirds of all General Assembly members present, or a minimum of 129 votes if all 193 members participate.

Because balloting is secret, there is intense lobbying for votes by candidates, even in uncontested races, to ensure they get the minimum number needed for victory.

Winners will assume their posts on January 1 and serve through the end of 2015.

The five winners on Thursday will replace Azerbaijan, Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan and Togo.

[Kilika]

Yep, that has some real potential for fireworks by adding Saudi Arabia.

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http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-arabia-declines-security-council-seat-citing-failure-083825816.html
Saudi Arabia, angered over Mideast, declines Security Council seat
10/18/13

RIYADH (Reuters) - 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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However, its anger at the international response to Arab issues, particularly the Syrian conflict, boiled over after Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, escaped U.S.-led military strikes in response to a poison gas attack in Damascus by agreeing to give up his chemical arsenal.

It is the second time this month that Saudi Arabia has made a public gesture over what it sees as the Security Council's failure to take action to stop the civil war in Syria that has killed more than 100,000 people.

Earlier this month, the Saudi foreign minister cancelled a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in frustration over the international inaction on Syria and the Palestinian issue, a diplomatic source said.

"The kingdom sees that the method and work mechanism and the double standards in the Security Council prevent it from properly shouldering its responsibilities towards world peace," the foreign ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency, SPA.

Saudi anger coincides with a rift between another Washington and another of its key Middle East allies, Egypt. Egypt's Foreign Minister said relations were in "turmoil" after Washington moved to curtail military aid to Cairo in a row over the way the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi Arabia was one of five countries elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve a two-year term on the 15-member U.N. Security Council.

The body, which has powers to authorize military action, impose sanctions and set up peacekeeping operations, has 10 rotating members. The U.S., China, Russia, France and Britain are permanent members which wield a veto.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said it was unable to take its seat until reforms were introduced that would allow the body to resolve Middle East issues.

U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia has been angry over what it says is the failure of the international community to help either Syrian rebels fighting to topple Assad or Palestinians seeking an end to more than four decades of Israeli occupation.

The Security Council has been split on how to handle the civil war in Syria, with Western powers pushing for stronger sanctions against Assad and Russia vetoing resolutions to that end. Saudi Arabia has backed the rebels in that conflict.

The Saudis, along with other Arab states, have also often criticized the United States for blocking international action to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands seized in the 1967 Middle East war.

(Reporting by Reem Shamseddine; Editing by Gareth Jones and Giles Elgood)

[Kilika]

That was a surprise, till I thought about it a bit. Ultimately, Islam wants no part of the world's governments. It intends to establish it's own government either through conversion or force.

[Mark]

The House Of Saud Pushes For A “New United Nations”…

Flying well below the radar of the Mainstream Media was the House of Saud’s recent refusal to be a part of the current United Nations Security Council.  The Saudi government cites the United Nations refusal (and thus by default, the United States) to engage in military action against the Assad regime in Syria.  This refusal is far more significant than the sum of its parts – it is a strong signal from the Saudis of a desire to see a greatly enhanced, strengthened, and militaristic United Nations.  In effect, the House of Saud is now calling for a New United Nations.  Readers of my books know well the implications of THAT chilling term…

Saudi Arabia rejects seat on U.N. Security Council, says 15-nation body unable to solve world’s crises

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 accused the Council of having “double standards” and failing 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. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57608121/saudi-arabia-rejects-seat-on-u.n-security-council-says-15-nation-body-unable-to-solve-worlds-crises/

Please note the now open outrage by the House of Saud over the United State’s failure to bomb Assad into oblivion.  Many Americans wondered why Barack Obama, who could not act against Libyan terrorists attacking a United States ambassador, and who has ignored bloody conflicts around the globe, was so determined to engage our military in Syria.

Look to Saudi Arabia.

The current American president was doing THEIR bidding, using this nation’s military as a chess piece for the House of Saud’s ongoing work in dominating the Middle East and much of the world.

http://theulstermanreport.com/2013/10/18/the-house-of-saud-pushes-for-a-new-united-nations/

[Mark]

Russia slams Saudi Arabia for refusing UN Security Council membership

Russia on Friday slammed Saudi Arabia for refusing to accept its seat on the UN Security Council, calling the kingdom's decision "strange" in light of its anger at the international community to end the conflict in Syria, AFP reported. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it was surprised at Saudi Arabia's move and puzzled by its accusations against the Security Council.

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Russia-blasts-Saudi-Arabia-for-refusing-UN-Security-Council-seat-329113

[Mark]

Saudis lash out at UN council after rejecting seat

UNITED NATIONS (AP) Saudi Arabia's U.N. ambassador lashed out at the Security Council and indicated that his country is standing by its decision to reject a seat it was elected to on the U.N.'s most powerful body.
 
Abdallah Al-Mouallimi delivered a scathing attack on the council's failure to end the Israeli-Palestinian and Syria conflicts and to convene a conference on creating a nuclear free zone in the Middle East at a meeting Tuesday on Mideast issues.
 
It was his first public appearance following the government's stunning about-face Friday when it rejected a council seat hours after the General Assembly elected Saudi Arabia to serve a two-year term.
 
Al-Mouallimi referred reporters asking whether the government would send an official letter to the U.N. rejecting the seat to Friday's Foreign Ministry statement.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11144815

[Kilika]

the council's failure to end the Israeli-Palestinian and Syria conflicts

And those hypocrites, in true Islamic fashion, try to blame others for their own failures.

Did they ever think that Saudi Arabia being THE power country in Islam, that they could dictate what goes on in the Middle East? Well, of course they did, they know exactly what they are doing, and that includes no desire at all to agree to any "peace process" deal. They provide the funding for the Islamic world and their "jihad".

Just like those idiot "Palestinians" and "Hamas" keep screaming Israel did this or that, all the while it's Islam that is openly and intentionally trying to ignore the world and institute their own form of government on the world. THAT is why the "peace process" isn't working, because the Arabs don't want it to work. They want Israel gone, forever, and the rest of the world to either convert to Islam or die.

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordan-to-take-saudi-seat-on-security-council/

Jordan to take Saudi seat on Security Council

UN diplomat says that after Riyadh’s unprecedented rejection of seat, Amman to assume it even though Kuwait was in line

By Edith M. Lederer November 8, 2013, 4:44 am

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Jordan will replace Saudi Arabia on the Security Council for a two-year term starting in January after the Saudis’ unprecedented rejection of the seat hours after they were elected, a UN diplomat said Thursday.

The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the deal was made privately, said Jordan’s UN Ambassador Prince Zeid al Hussein was flying to Amman Thursday night to discuss Jordan’s new role on the UN’s most powerful body.

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[Kilika]

Okay, maybe now we are seeing why Saudi Arabia rejected the seat. They don't have an in-your-face presence like Jordan, who happens to control the Temple Mount. This is significant.

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Okay, maybe now we are seeing why Saudi Arabia rejected the seat. They don't have an in-your-face presence like Jordan, who happens to control the Temple Mount. This is significant.

Ah - that's what it is. Good catch! Thanks!(Personally, I'm not familiar with a lot of this)

[Kilika]

Well, it's what I'm thinking anyway, considering the issues in Israel, Jordan could play a big role in Security Council issues concerning Israel and the Temple Mount, which is controlled by Jordan through the Waqf. Admittedly, I'm putting pieces together that may not fit, but it sure looks like it fits.