In a passionate speech to the members of the UN General Assembly yesterday, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said “those whose hands are stained with the blood of the Syrian people” have no place in a “new Syria” and expressed deep concern that the international community has been unable to save innocent Syrians from the “killing machine” that has devastated their country and led to the world’s most tragic humanitarian crisis.
Al-Jubeir first spoke about the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and noted the question of Palestine had long been on the agenda of the General Assembly. But with the recent development of Russian airstrikes in Syria that appear to be in support of embattled President Bashar Al-Assad, Foreign Minister Al-Jubeir used the occasion to blast what he called Al-Assad’s “Killing Machine.”
“The international community continues to be unable to save the Syrian people from the killing machine that is being operated by Bashar al-Assad,” he said, underscoring that the conflict has claimed some 300,000 lives and driven millions of desperate people from their homeland, according to a write up by the United Nations on UN.org.
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