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Saudis give UN $100m ‘to fight terrorism’
Saudi Arabia has handed over a cheque for $100m to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help finance the UN’s centre to combat global terrorism.
The UN chief welcomed the gift at a ceremony in his office and said the recent upsurge in terrorism in a number of countries and regions – most dramatically, the Islamic State group’s takeover of a large swath of Syria and Iraq – “underscores the challenge before us”.
Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, who presented the cheque with the Saudi UN ambassador, stressed that “terrorism is a scourge and an evil that affects all of us.”
| Terrorism knows no religion. It knows no ethnicity. It has no nationality. It has no humanity. It has no compassion. It has no justice. |
He said it can only be dealt with if all countries and peoples unite to deal with the threat.
“We believe that the United Nations can play a very strong and very effective role in mobilising the efforts of the world to counter this evil,” al-Jubeir said.
“Terrorism knows no religion. It knows no ethnicity. It has no nationality. It has no humanity. It has no compassion. It has no justice,” he said.
“It is in violation of every religion in the world, and it is a scourge that must be eliminated through very strong and very robust international measures.”
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia called for the establishment of an international centre to combat terrorism almost 10 years ago, and the proposal was adopted by 55 countries at a counter-terrorism conference in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in 2005.
‘Exceptionally generous’
The king pledged $10m to establish the United Nations Counter-terrorism centre, and it was launched in 2011 at UN headquarters in New York.
Al-Jubeir said the $100m donation will better enable the centre to provide the tools, technologies and methods to countries to confront and eliminate the threat of terrorism.
Ban said the UN General Assembly has encouraged its 193 member states to support the centre’s work, “and the United States, United Kingdom and Germany have responded to that call”.
The UN chief also praised King Abdullah’s “exceptionally generous” $500m donation to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to Iraqis caught up in the Islamic State group’s offensive, saying it showed Saudi Arabia’s “sense of global solidarity”.
The donations come months after Saudi Arabia stunned the diplomatic world with the unprecedented announcement that it was rejecting a seat on the UN Security Council, less than 24 hours after it was elected last October 17.
The foreign ministry accused the UN’s most powerful body of failing to end the Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts and to convene a conference on creating a Middle East zone free of weapons of mass destruction.
11 Comments on "Saudis give UN $100m ‘to fight terrorism’"
Plantagenet on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 11:48 am
Good to see KSA giving money to the UN to fight terrorism. Now if only they would clamp down on the Saudi money that is going to fund al Qaida, ISIS, and other Islamist groups that use terrorism.
Dredd on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 12:13 pm
What a ruse.
The Saudi Kingdom is active in terrorism but that is being covered up by Western Powers.
jjhman on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 12:33 pm
It is my understanding that the Saudi’s support education throughout the Muslim world by paying for the madrasas that teach the extreme form of Islam known as Wahabi (sp?)and that support of that sect is part of the deal that the Saudi family made to take and keep control of the Arabian peninsula.
Unfortunately the teachings at these madrasas are strongly related to the groups that participate in the most heinous acts perpetrated in the name of Islam.
I suspect that the Saudis, like all of us want to have their cake and eat it too.
It’s not insanity to hold totally conflicting notions in mind, it’s perfectly human.
JuanP on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 1:00 pm
A different view of this: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/18/did-iran-just-knife-putin-in-the-back/
HARM on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 2:30 pm
So they give $100m to fight it, and $100 billion to sponsor it? Seems “balanced” to me!
steve on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 5:50 pm
Juan said 18th Aug 2014 1:00 pm
A different view of this: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/08/18/did-iran-just-knife-putin-in-the-back/
I say “no shit Sherlock!” I am always amazed at when people here and other sites are outraged and shocked that their media is lying to them….this has been going on for a long, long, time….
JuanP on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 6:28 pm
Steve, I think it says a lot about you that you read so much into my one brief phrase. I would say you are manifesting your personal issues rather than grasping mine. Just so you know I wasn’t expressing shock or surprise. I just posted what I thought was an interesting link to share with others. I haven’t bought any BS in this world since I was in kinder, some 40 years ago, and surprising me is a really, really hard thing to do.
hculliton on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 8:05 pm
Given that terrorists are Saudi Arabia’s second biggest export, they might want to add on several more zeros to that amount if they expect brownie points.
Nony on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 8:11 pm
right hand gives, left takes away.
Makati1 on Mon, 18th Aug 2014 8:47 pm
If it weren’t for the oil, the ME would be a desert littered with Muslim and Jewish skeletons. Stop buying their oil for one year and the area would collapse into the above scenario. Problem solved.
But, the world cannot do that for even a month or our own countries would go into chaos. We live in interesting times.
Kenz300 on Tue, 19th Aug 2014 11:29 am
If not for OIL ….. these countries of the Middle East would blow away like sands in the desert.
One more reason to move away from fossil fuels and speed up the transition to safer, cleaner and cheaper alternative energy sources.