So we should be hearing from him very shortly. This to my money at andys. Peace and blessings of god be upon you its my great honor to introduce this statement of the custodian of the 2 holy mosques control man bernard. King of the kingdom of saudi arabia thank you mr president. In the name of god the compassionate the merciful your majestys your highnesss your excellencys mr president of the General Assembly. Mr secretary general distinguished attending is or may gods peace and blessings be upon year at the outset i would like to extend my sincerest congratulations to mr of our can bask here on his election as president of the 75th session of the u. N. General assembly in washington success in fulfilling his duties i would also like to extend my thanks to his predecessor and dr to Johnny Muhammad dandy president other previous session for his great effort. It would be a remiss not to commend the distinguished endevor is of his excellency secretary general and tanya terris to improve the performance of u. N. Institutions to attain the objectives and purposes of its charter mr president distinguished at indians. I address you today from the birthplace of islam place of revelation and that for muslims of my message is based on the teachings of our noble religion our arab culture and our common human value. We all call for peaceful coexistence moderation and solidarity among the nations and peoples of the world to confront the extraordinary challenges facing. Our world why. Our world today is facing tremendous challenges. Especially with a covered 910. 00 demick and its healthy a military and economic repercussions it compels us all to stand together and face those common challenges to humanity. In its capacity as president other g 20 the kingdom has coordinated International Effort. By holding a Leaders Summit last march to coordinate the global effort to combat the spend demick. The summit aimed at curbing the humanitarian and Economic Impact of the spend damming during the summit the kingdom and now a pledge of 500000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in support of an effort aimed at combating the condemning and reinforcing Emergency Preparedness and responses. The kingdom continues to promote Global Response effort to address this pandemic and its repercussions are. Looking to m. M. Is one of the largest donors of yemen a tarion and developmental aid it provides its support to all peoples of the world irrespective of their political ethnic or religious affiliations over the past 3 decades the kingdom provided more than 86000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars in humanitarian aid benefiting 81. 00 countries distinguished matter. My country ever since the foundation of this organization has been at the forefront along with other nations to achieve International Peace and security it has been consistently working to mediate conflicts to reach Peaceful Solutions to disputes as well as seeking to prevent conflict and support security Stability Development and prosperity. However the middle east has been suffering from major security and political challenges that undermine the security of its peoples and the stability of its country as. Our region has been faced. Thing for many decades attempts by the forces of evil and extremism to impose their malign views and policies in order to hijack this countrys present and future paying no heed to the aspirations of the people of the region for Development Prosperity and peace in the kingdom we trolls a path for the future through our vision 2030 which aspires to create or a boston economy and an Interactive Community thus contributing actively to the progress and civilization after humankind. Regionally and internationally the kingdom advocates a policy based on respect for International Law and its principles to achieve security stability and prosperity in the region we support Political Solutions to the conflicts and combat extremism in all its forms and manifestations distinguished at injuries and that over the past decades the kingdoms hands were extended openly and positively to iran searching for peace but to no avail the kingdom received several of irans president and other law senior officials in line with the kingdoms efforts to seek ways to build relations based on good neighborly ness and Mutual Respect we want continue the International Effort to address Irans Nuclear program but time and again the entire world witnessed how the Iranian Regime had believed this efforts to fuel its expansionist activities build its terrorist networks and use terrorism in the process it squandered the resources and wealth of the iranian people to fulfill its expansionist project which only brought about chaos extremism and sectarianism the Iranian Regime conforming with its hostile attitude targeted Oil Facilities in the kingdom last year in a blatant violation of International Law and International Peace and security. It demonstrated. That this regime has total disregard for the stability of the Global Economy or the security of oil supplies to International Markets theyre a new regime also continues through its proxies to target the kingdom launching today over 300. Ballistic mistrials and more than 400 armed drones in a stark violation of Security Council resolutions 22162231. Hour xperience with ever a new regime has taught us that partial solutions or appeasement will not stop its threats to International Peace and security comprehensive solution and a Firm International position are needed to ensure fundamental solutions to the Iranian Regimes attempt to possess weapons of mass destruction or develop a Ballistic Missile program and its interference in the internal affairs of other countries as well as its sponsorship of terrorism the Iranian Regime interference in yemen by supporting the coup. Carried out by its proxy the healthy militia against the legitimate government led to a Political Economic and humanitarian crisis that the fraternal people of yemen are still suffering from this coup is a threat to the security of the countries of the region and the waterways vital for Global Economy and furthermore the whole theme unless she is impeded the flow of humanitarian aid to the yemeni people they also obstructed efforts to reach a political solution in yemen they rejected efforts to deescalate the situation the last latest of which was the cease fire announcement made by the coalition to support it in the sea in yemen last april in response to the uns request in order to proceed with efforts to combat the covered 900. 00 pandemic to him and instead they continue to target civilians in yemen and in the kingdom. And we re to pray that the condiment will not hesitate to defend it. National security nor will we abandon the fraternal people yemen until they regained their complete sovereignty and independence from everything in had an e kingdom will continue to provide humanitarian support for the people of yemen and we will continue to support the efforts of the u. N. Secretary general special envoy for yemen in accordance with the g. C. C. Initiative the outcomes of the comprehensive National Dialogue and Security Council resolution at 2216. 00 distinguished attendees terrorism and extremist ideologies pose a major threat to the world at large. Together we have made remarkable progress and was passed a few years in combating extremist organizations including substantially rolling isis strongholds in iraq and syria punks to the efforts of the global coalition. Similarily the forces of the coalition to support legitimacy in yemen were able to strike hard against al qaida and isis in them and to succeed in our battle against terrorism and extremism we must intensify our dont efforts by facing this challenge comprehensive. This includes combating financing of terrorism and extremism. The kingdom has supported Many International entities that contribute to reinforcing our joint efforts to combat the strum and the kingdon supporting the un counterterrorism center. With 110000000. 00 new it has established the Global Center for combating extremist ideologies. In riyadh. You know it also hosts the International TerroristFinancing Targeting Center they love that we in the kingdom thanks to our position in the muslim world there are a special historical responsibility to protect our tolerant of faith from attempts to defame it by terrorist organizations and extremist groups. And in. The killing of one individual with the killing of all people thus it is undoubtedly innocent of all cry and then atrocities committed in its name by the forces of terrorism and extremism terrorists and extremists organizations find that Fertile Ground to grow and problem for 18 countries of them where there are sectarian divisions weaknesses or where state institutions are in columbus if we intend to win our battle against terrorism we must not waver in the face of countries sponsoring terrorism sectarianism we Must Stand Firm in the face of countries promoting transnational extremist ideologies which behind false political slogans to hide their extremist chaotic and destructive nature are more around distinguished at indy. Or old. Peace in the middle east is our strategic vision. And we will spare no effort to Work Together towards achieving a Brighter Future work peace stability prosperity and coexistence among all the regions prevail. The kingdon supports all effort aimed at advancing the Peace Process we have been introducing peace initiatives since 1981. This included of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative which is the basis for a comprehensive and just solution to the arab israeli conflict it ensures that the fraternal Palestinian People would regain their legitimate rights for a front for in those 2 being an independent Palestinian Statehood in East Jerusalem as its capital we supported the efforts of the Current Us Administration to bring about peace in the middle east by bringing palestinians and the israelis together on a negotiating table went to reach a fair and comprehensive agreement. While we follow with concern the developments in libya we call upon all of our libyan the brothers to sit at the negotiating table and unite to maintain the territorial integrity and safety yeah we condemn foreign interventions in libya and support a peaceful solution in syria that maintains its territorial integrity and ensure the departure of all militias and mercenaries we also stand by our fraternal people of lebanon are Horrocks Kerry and saying humanitarian catastrophe following the explosion of the port of beirut this was a result of the header many of hezbollah that terrorist organization affiliated with their. On their head many over the Decision Making process and lebannon by the false alarm as a result of the constitutional state institutions and lebannon were this fabled order for the fraternal people of lebanon to achieve the restoration is for security stability and prosperity this terrorist Organization Must be this on. Sir president distinguished atoms from this podium we call for the intensification is a global effort to confront the great challenges facing humanity whether its due to Climate Change poverty organized crime the spread of at damage or other challenges which require strengthening our cooperation for a Brighter Future so that future generations can live in stability peace and security thank you mr president and may gods peace be upon you. We were listening to the saudi king solomon been giving his 1st address to the United Nations lets bring in our diplomatic and said james bays whos at the United Nations that speech of course was prerecorded live from recorders and actually from saudi arabia says what do you make of what the king said. Well i think its in some ways what he didnt say 1st words telling you that its very rare for a saudi king to address the u. N. General assembly normally its done by a foreign minister you dont normally get a king and you have to look back a very long time for the king to address the General Assembly clearly normally you have to make the journey to new york and he didnt have to do that this year he spoke from saudi arabia i think the 1st thing people remark on is just that and theyll be people will be looking very closely diplomats and others at the video because theres been all sorts of reports that hes in ill health so he certainly was there unable to deliver the speech and didnt look particularly troubled with regard to his health in the speech as i say though its not what he said in the speech because i think it was a reiteration of saudi policy and nearly everything he said has been said by saudi diplomats before but some of the things he didnt mention the long war in yemen clearly the coalition is getting very tired after 5 years their partners their Main Partners u. A. E. Seem to be mainly withdrawing from the effort no suggestion there that saudi arabia is going to bring that war to a close all although they did talk about the efforts of the u. N. To try to bring peace a lot of mention early in the speech about the humanitarian gestures saudi arabia makes of the money goes to humanitarian funds in it and when he spoke specifically about yemen it was mentioned it is worth reminding you that saudi arabia promised recently money to. The u. N. In yemen and im just going to quote you from the u. N. See military in chief mark speaking just a couple of weeks ago several donors including saudi arabia the u. A. E. Kuwait who have a particular responsibility with this region they discharged in recent years has so far given nothing to this years u. N. Plan he went on and this is tough for a u. N. Official its particularly reprehensible to promise money which gives people hope and then dash those hopes by failing to fulfill the promise so although he was heralding the saudi contribution to u. N. Humanitarian aid the man in charge of the u. N. See monitary their efforts is not so positive about what saudi arabia has been doing on the Iran Nuclear Deal no specifics other than he said that iran should be a Firm International position with regard to iran on peace in the middle east which he came to very quickly at the end reiterated the saudi position and said vaguely they supported the efforts of the trumpet ministration but no direct response from the king to those recent peace deals done between israel and the u. S. And israel and bahrain which clearly are some of saudi arabias closest partners and normally aligned their foreign policies very closely very little mention of syria and libya just a quick mention at the end and clearly of things that were not mentioned that you pretty much knew the king was going to talk about but the ongoing siege of qatar the death of Jamal Khashoggi almost 2 years ago which is certainly affected the perception of saudi arabia in the International Community and repression at home in saudi arabia including the imprisonment of mohammed bin nayef the former crown prince deposed by the kings own son who is now the the crown Prince Mohammed bin saw a man no mention of him he said to be important ok joining us there from United Nations thanks very much thats going to have a man. She is a former u. S. State Department Official and the c. E. O. Of the Political Risk consulting strategy she joins us now from mclean in virginia just outside washington d. C. Good to have you with us hilary do you agree with james there when really no surprises in the saudi kings speech that it was rather just a reiteration of saudi policy touching on all the main predictable issues of iran. The regional regional politics. Yes so i think it was quite important for a number of reasons at 1st i thought i thought it was very important in terms of the ongoing various normalization deals or we could perhaps like its called and diplomatic or peace deals between the United Arab Emirates bahrain and the truck administration continues to tantalize perhap