The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has called on the world community to support Arab efforts for making the Middle East and the Arab Gulf region mass-destruction weapons free, a move necessary for enhancing opportunities for the prevalence of security, peace and stability at the regional and international levels. In a speech yesterday at the 16th conference for the Parties of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague yesterday, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Shaghrood, Saudi Ambassador to The Netherland and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, underscored the importance of implementing the ban on chemical weapons, emanating from the Kingdom's firm policy aiming at dismantling all kinds of mass-destruction weapons under strict and firm control of the world community. He pointed out to the signing of agreement for the establishment of the International Center for the Combat of Terrorism which was co-signed by Prince Saud Al-Faisal, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Ban Ki Moon, United Nations Secretary General, upon a proposal by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud which he presented at the International Conference for the Fight Against Terrorism, hosted by the Kingdom early February 2005. Al-Shaghrood, who leads his country's delegation to the conference, called for the destruction of the remnants of chemical weapons in each country.
