Saudi Arabia`s statement at session of UN General Assembly delivered 4 New York

The Arab World, including the state of Palestine, has done its utmost
to achieve a real and lasting peace. The Arab Peace Initiative, which
is still on the table, constitutes a collective comprehensive
proposal to end the conflict with Israel and conclude a peace
agreement that would ensure security, recognition and normalization
of relations for all the States of the region. The components of the
Arab Peace Initiative are fully consistent with the above mentioned
criterion on which they are based and centred, thereby embodying the
Arab commitment to peace as a strategic option, and in accordance
with the Charter.

Everyone is aware not only of the general outline of the desired
solution but also of the reasons why peace has not yet been achieved.
Peace cannot, and will not, be achieved as long as Israel continues
its massacres and random bombardments of the Palestinian people.
Peace will never be achieved through the holding of sham, protracted
and fruitless bilateral or multilateral negotiations that discuss
everything except the core issues of the conflict. The peace that is
being sought will never be achieved by imposing sanctions and
preconditions on a people suffering under occupation while, at the
same time, exempting Israel from any consequences of its violation of
the most fundamental rules and principles of international law. The
desired peace will never be achieved by attempting to impose
normalization of relations on the Arabs before the completion of
withdrawal and the establishment of peace, as though we are expected
to reward the aggressor for his aggression in a reverse logic that
totally lacks any form of serious credibility.

All international initiatives, solutions and endeavours in this
regard have invariably run up against a wall of rejection,
obstruction and procrastination on the part of Israel, which is
continuing to take unilateral measures that are incompatible with
international law and Security Council resolutions. Instead of an
honest endeavour to achieve peace, we find that Israel is persisting
in its daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and in its
construction of settlements, walls and bypass roads, all of which
violate international legitimacy, with a view to creating new facts
on the ground. These settlements are changing the geographic and
demographic nature of the Palestinian territories, especially in and
around the city of Jerusalem, in flagrant violation of international
law, all relevant Security Council resolutions, the commitments
provided for in the Road Map and the undertakings made at Annapolis.
The settlements that encircle most of the main Palestinian towns in
the West Bank also usurp more than half of their water resources.

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