{"id":5598,"date":"2012-02-06T09:34:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2012-02-06T09:34:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T16:34:04","slug":"saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-hypocritically-calls-for-intervention-of-opportunism-on-distressed-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5598","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah hypocritically calls for Intervention of Opportunism on distressed Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia calls for \u2018critical measures\u2019 against the Syrian regime<\/strong>
\n06 February 2012 – By Al Arabiya<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia on Monday urged the international community to take \u201ccritical measures to protect innocent lives\u201d in Syria, warning of an impending \u201chumanitarian disaster\u201d after the U.N. Security Council failed to pass a resolution on the crisis there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.N. Security Council\u2019s failure to pass a resolution in support of the Arab Initiative must not prevent the taking of critical measures to protect innocent lives and stop the bloodshed and all acts of violence that threaten serious consequences for the Syrian people and regional stability,\u201d a cabinet statement said.<\/p>\n

Riyadh \u201cappeals to the international community not to stop exerting sincere efforts to find a solution to this crisis that has killed hundreds of Syrians and threatens to cause a humanitarian disaster if it continues,\u201d said the statement carried by state news agency SPA.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will keep applying sanctions and put more pressure on Syria to try to usher in transitional government. He said it was important to try to resolve the Syrian crisis without outside military intervention.<\/p>\n

The United States closed its embassy in Syria and has pulled out all remaining staff on Monday citing serious security concerns as protests swirled against President Assad\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States has suspended operations of our embassy in Damascus as of February 6. Ambassador (Robert) Ford and all American personnel have now departed the country,\u201d a State Department statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe recent surge in violence, including bombings in Damascus on December 23 and January 6, has raised serious concerns that our embassy is not sufficiently protected from armed attack,\u201d it said, referring to attacks linked to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, along with several other diplomatic missions, conveyed our security concerns to the Syrian government but the regime failed to respond adequately.\u201d<\/p>\n

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, meanwhile, said after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he would call Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the international community\u2019s response to the crisis.<\/p>\n

Neither France nor Germany, he said, would accept the \u201cblocking\u201d of international action on Syria.<\/p>\n

Britain, meanwhile, said it is seeking new ways of applying pressure on Syria through the UN General Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia and China are protecting a regime that is killing thousands of people. We find their position incomprehensible and inexcusable,\u201d Prime Minister David Cameron\u2019s spokesman said in London.<\/p>\n

Russia and China, both permanent members of the Security Council, on Saturday vetoed a U.N. resolution condemning Syria for its deadly crackdown on protests, drawing condemnation from other global powers.<\/p>\n

The Saudi government statement came as Oman\u2019s foreign minister said foreign ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will meet in Riyadh later this week to discuss developments in Syria. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia calls for \u2018critical measures\u2019 against the Syrian regime 06 February 2012 – By Al Arabiya Saudi Arabia on Monday urged the international community to take \u201ccritical measures to protect innocent lives\u201d in Syria, warning of an impending \u201chumanitarian disaster\u201d after the U.N. Security Council failed to pass a resolution on the crisis there. more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2444],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}