Ipse related to Saudi Arabia

Anna Jacobs

Inserted 2 months ago

“Donald Trump's election last week for a second term in the White House is likely to be on leaders' minds in Riyadh. This summit is very much an opportunity for regional leaders to signal to the incoming Trump administration what they want in terms of US engagement. The message will likely be one of dialogue, de-escalation and calling out Israeli military campaigns in the region.”

Aljazeera

Senior Gulf analyst for the International Crisis Group think tank

11 Nov 2024 6 4

Ali Shihabi

Inserted 2 months ago

“What Gaza has done is set back any Israeli integration into the region. Saudi Arabia sees that any association with Israel has become more toxic since Gaza, unless the Israelis change their spots and show a real commitment to a Palestinian state, which they have refused to do. For now, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf partners remain skeptical about the sincerity of Iran's diplomatic overtures. While two of Iran's proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, have been hammered by Israel, Iran still arms and supports its third ally, the Houthis in Yemen, which have attacked Saudi Arabia. But as long as the Iranians are reaching a hand out to Riyadh, the Saudi leadership will take it. If Iran is serious, that would be a true realignment of the Mideast.”

Nytimes

Saudi businessman who is close to the monarchy and sits on the advisory board of Neom

20 Oct 2024 13 7

Mohammed bin Salman

Inserted 2 months ago

“The kingdom will not cease its tireless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without one.”

Nytimes

Saudi Crown Prince

18 Sep 2024 4 3

Faisal bin-Farhan

Inserted 7 months ago

“It is absolutely necessary that Israel accepts that it cannot exist without the existence of a Palestinian state. That its security is served by building a Palestinian state. So we hope sincerely that the leaders of Israel will realise that it is in their interest to work with the international community, not just to strengthen the Palestinian Authority but to establish a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders.”

Aje

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia

26 May 2024 4 2

Faisal bin Farhan

Inserted 11 months ago

“We agree that regional peace includes peace for Israel, but that could only happen through peace for the Palestinians through a Palestinian state... There is a pathway towards a much better future for the region, for the Palestinians, and for Israel, that is peace, and we are fully committed to that... a ceasefire on all sides should be a starting point for permanent sustainable peace, which can only happen through justice to the Palestinian people.”

Reuters

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister

16 Jan 2024 4 5

Mohammed bin Salman

Inserted 1 year ago

“This is a humanitarian catastrophe that has proved the failure of the international community and the UN Security Council to put an end to Israel's gross violations of international humanitarian laws, and prove the dual standards adopted by the world. We are certain the only cause for peace is the end of the Israeli occupation and illegal settlements, and restoration of the established rights of the Palestinian people and the establishment of the state on 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”

Aljazeera

Saudi Crown Prince

11 Nov 2023 8 1

Abas Aslani

Inserted 1 year ago

“Iran and Saudi Arabia were previously mostly focused on rivalry and tensions, but now they are talking about focusing on common ground … stressing cooperation. But on the bilateral level, to what extent they can go ahead depends on how the Saudis act because Iran has been under economic sanctions by the West; that's why we have to see how they will proceed.”

Aljazeera

Senior researcher at the Tehran-based Center for Middle East Strategic Studies

06 Apr 2023 1 2

Ali Shihabi

Inserted 2 years ago

“I think the kingdom was messaging the West that its ties to Russia can also serve a useful purpose for them. You need some countries to maintain ties to both sides.”

Reuters

Saudi pro-government commentator

23 Sep 2022 3 2

Ankit Panda

Inserted 3 years ago

“Normally, the U.S. would have pressured Saudi Arabia not to pursue these capabilities, but the first indicators that the Saudis were pursuing these capabilities indigenously emerged during the Trump era. The Trump administration, to put it lightly, was not interested in bearing down on Riyadh over these issues. A robust Saudi missile program would introduce new challenges to constraining other missile programs in the region. To take just one example, Iran's missiles, which are a major concern to the U.S., would be more difficult to constrain in the future without parallel constraints on a growing Saudi program.”

Edition

Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

23 Dec 2021 5 5

Jeffrey Lewis

Inserted 3 years ago

“While significant attention has been focused on Iran's large ballistic missile program, Saudi Arabia's development and now production of ballistic missiles has not received the same level of scrutiny. The domestic production of ballistic missiles by Saudi Arabia suggests that any diplomatic effort to control missile proliferation would need to involve other regional actors, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that produce their own ballistic missiles.”

Edition

Weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies

23 Dec 2021 3 6

John Fisher

Inserted 3 years ago

“It was a very tight vote. We understand that Saudi Arabia and their coalition allies and Yemen were working at a high level for some time to persuade states in capitals through a mixture of threats and incentives, to back their bids to terminate the mandate of this international monitoring mechanism. The loss of the mandate is a huge blow for accountability in Yemen and for the credibility of the human rights council as a whole. For a mandate to have been defeated by a party to the conflict for no reason other than to evade scrutiny for international crimes is a travesty.”

Theguardian

Geneva Director of Human Rights Watch

01 Dec 2021 6 3

Saad Aljabri

Inserted 3 years ago

“He [Mohammed bin Salman] is a psychopath with no empathy, [who] doesn't feel emotion, never learned from his experience.”

Theguardian

Former major-general, minister of state and long-time adviser to deposed Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef of Saudi Arabia

25 Oct 2021 1 2

Fatih Birol

Inserted 3 years ago

“I welcome Saudi Arabia's announcement of a NetZero target. Countries will get to net zero via different paths, but the threat of climate change is universal. Pledges from major fossil-fuel producers, and their implementation, are vital to reach international climate goals.”

Theguardian

Executive Director of the International Energy Agency

23 Oct 2021 5 2

Mohammed bin Salman

Inserted 3 years ago

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aims to reach zero-net emissions by 2060 under its circular carbon economy programme … while maintaining the kingdom's leading role in strengthening security and stability of global oil markets.”

Theguardian

Crown prince, deputy prime minister, and minister of defense of Saudi Arabia

23 Oct 2021 3 1

Arhama Siddiqa

Inserted 3 years ago

“Given the Biden administration's tough stance towards Saudi Arabia, Riyadh cannot afford to cut off any allies at the moment- be they big or small in significance. The visit [of Pakistan PM Imran Khan] represents each side's attempt to further a sustainable and mutually beneficial partnership. Pakistan-Saudi relations are synonymous to a marriage where divorce is not possible. Each side needs the other. For Pakistan, on the forefront is the Pakistani diaspora and the need for foreign direct investment. For Saudi Arabia, Pakistan is a source of oil exports [especially] in light of the China-Iran deal. If they [Saudi Arabia] push Pakistan away it will be to their own detriment.”

Aljazeera

Research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad

07 May 2021 5 3

Agnes Callamard

Inserted 3 years ago

“With the release of the US report, confirming Saudi officials' culpability at the highest levels, the United States should now take the lead in ensuring accountability for this crime and for setting in place the international mechanisms to prevent and punish such acts in the future. The United States government should impose sanctions against the Crown Prince, as it has done for the other perpetrators – targeting his personal assets but also his international engagements. I call on the government of Saudi Arabia to disclose whether his remains were destroyed onsite or how and where they were disposed. The individuals responsible know only too well the specifics and, in the face of the Saudis' unconscionable silence, the international community must exert pressure for full disclosure of all the facts.”

Aljazeera

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

27 Feb 2021 4 3

Salman bin Abdulaziz

Inserted 4 years ago

“A comprehensive solution and a firm international position are required. Our experience with the Iranian regime has taught us that partial solutions and appeasement did not stop its threats to international peace and security.”

Aljazeera

King of Saudi Arabia

23 Sep 2020 2 1

Anna Muzychuk

Inserted 3 years ago

“In a few days I am going to lose two world champion titles - one by one, just because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone's rules, not to wear abaya, not to be accompanied getting outside, and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature. Exactly one year ago I won these two titles and was about the happiest person in the chess world but this time I feel really bad. I am ready to stand for my principles and skip the event, where in five days I was expected to earn more than I do in a dozen of events combined. All that is annoying, but the most upsetting thing is that almost nobody really cares. That is a really bitter feeling, still not the one to change my opinion and my principles.”

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Ukrainian chess grandmaster

23 Dec 2017 0 2

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“The kingdom will not cease its tireless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and we affirm that the kingdom will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without one.”

“I think the kingdom was messaging the West that its ties to Russia can also serve a useful purpose for them. You need some countries to maintain ties to both sides.”

“He [Mohammed bin Salman] is a psychopath with no empathy, [who] doesn't feel emotion, never learned from his experience.”

“I welcome Saudi Arabia's announcement of a NetZero target. Countries will get to net zero via different paths, but the threat of climate change is universal. Pledges from major fossil-fuel producers, and their implementation, are vital to reach international climate goals.”

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aims to reach zero-net emissions by 2060 under its circular carbon economy programme … while maintaining the kingdom's leading role in strengthening security and stability of global oil markets.”

“A comprehensive solution and a firm international position are required. Our experience with the Iranian regime has taught us that partial solutions and appeasement did not stop its threats to international peace and security.”

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