Aiban welcomed the UN General Assembly's recent resolution granting Palestine the non-member observer status as well as the recommendations of a report recently issued by the International Committee on Fact-finding on the Negative Impacts of the Israeli Settlements on Human Rights of the Palestinian People. On Syria, the Saudi representative told representatives of world legal organizations that the continuation of the tragic situation for more than two years in Syria, leaving more than 90,000 killed and hundreds of thousands displaced due to the use of the Syrian regime killing machine against unarmed people is an ethical and humanitarian challenge for the international community that is waiting an unified stance of the Security Council to put an end to the ordeal in Damascus and other rural cities, towns and villages of Syria. Al-Aiban gave an account on Saudi Arabia's human rights policy, emanating from the enforcement of Islamic Sharia law which guarantees the rights of all people, the duty of the state to protect them and enhance the principles of justice for patriots and expatriates. Saudi Arabia's judicial system is an independent authority that respects the rights and guarantees the freedom of everybody in the country, Al-Aiban said, highlighting the principles of prosecution and litigation, and ways of settling disputes through amicable practices and in court. --More
