The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon to remove the name of the "Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen" from list of those responsible for violence against civilians, pointing out that the invitation to the UN to dispatch officials to visit the command of the coalition forces in Riyadh to see details of their preparations and precautions in this regard remains standing. The Kingdom stressed its belief that the United Nations must exercise its role impartially, objectively and transparently and not be satisfied with unreliable sources as the basis for its reports or their data, and that the primary objective of these reports should be to seek improving the circumstances faced by children in armed conflicts. This came in a speech by the Kingdom on Tuesday before the Security Council on the open debate on the item "children in armed conflict," delivered by Ambassador of the Kingdom to the United Nations Abdullah bin Yahya Almoalimi. The ambassador said, "My delegation expresses its deep concern at the escalation of serious violations committed against children, and we condemn in the strongest terms" violations against children contained in the report of the Secretary General on the armed non-state groups such as the "youth movement", "Boko Haram" and"Daash", in addition to sectarian militias such as Hezbollah and the forces of Alhashd Alshaabi. The ambassador also noted the violations in Syria and South Sudan and against Palestinian children by Israel. --More
