Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the Foreign Minister, highlighted here today Saudi Arabia"s vision on achieving international security and peace. That vision is emanating from our respect to the basis of international legitimacy. However, this respect ought to come first from Israel, the main accountable side for the most prolonged dispute in our contemporary history and the defier of Security Council"s resolutions, namely 242 and 328, not only by dodging international commitments, but also by continuing swallowing more Palestinian territories, without any right, constructing more settlements and expanding existed ones, regardless of world community"s resolution neither to recognize its legitimacy nor its legality, he said. In a joint press conference held here today with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Prince Saud Al-Faisal pointed out that China"s keenness, as a permanent member of the Security Council, in dealing with world disputes in accordance to international legitimacy, a stance conforming to Arab declared position to restore legitimate Arab and Palestinian rights, based on international legitimacy principles and its decisions, as stipulated in the Arab Initiative Peace, he added. Prince Al-Faisal envisioned that Israel"s evasion of legitimacy"s principles and its continuous evasion of international laws, principles and norms, always constituted the main obstacle before reaching a just and last settlement of the dispute in the Middle East, he went on to say. --More
