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Saudi Gazette - 23 February, 2012
King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that any dialogue on Syria was futile, the official SPA news agency reported Wednesday.
Russia should have coordinated with the Arabs... before using the veto to block a resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, King Abdullah told President Medvedev.
But now, dialogue about what is happening (in Syria) is futile, the Monarch told Medvedev in a telephone conversation on the escalating violence that has killed dozens of civilians in recent days.
King Abdullah told Medvedev that
Saudi Arabia will never abandon its religious and moral obligations toward whats happening.
The Kremlin released a statement earlier in the day saying the two leaders exchanged views about the situation in the Middle East in light of the events in Syria, but gave no further details. (that really funny kremlin did not know what to say lol)
King Abdullahs statements came as Syrias main opposition group urged the international community to create safe havens in the country and said that military intervention might be the only option to end a brutal crackdown.
At a news conference in Paris, the Syrian National Council said it would attend a meeting in Tunis on Friday of the countries known as the Friends of Syria and ask for safe zones to protect civilians and allow the opposition to organize.
It also called on Russia to force President Bashar Al-Assads regime to allow access for humanitarian convoys.
More than 6,000 people have died in the unrest in Syria, activists say, as Assads government seeks to snuff out an uprising that began with peaceful protests in March last year but has also seen military deserters take up arms against the regime.
KSA to have field hospital in Jordan to treat Syrians
As a humanitarian gesture, the Saudi government plans to set up a 250-bed mobile field hospital in Jordan to help Syrians injured in their countrys uprising.
The location of the hospital will be chosen soon, Asharq Arabic newspaper quoted a source as saying.
Saudi King Tells Medvedev No Point in Syria Talks After Veto - Businessweek
The advances within the last decade that Russia made into the GCC, with construction, tourism and energy sectors, may have been swept aside by this one veto, Theodore Karasik, director of research at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, said in a phone interview. In Saudi Arabia, there is a society-wide outrage that not only includes clerics but every-day individuals and the leadership.
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i can say i'm proud of my country's stance against the massacres and genocide against the defenceless population of civilians in syria, russians always supproted genocide against muslims, in bosnia, Kosova, Afghanistan, Chychnia...now this should teach them some thing (of course only if they can learn).