IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Felix Ndahinda
    Felix Ndahinda “I don't see this [granting the mandate to combat M23 rebels to a force comprising southern African nations, SADECO] as a stabilising intervention, at most, it will postpone the issue because there is no one military solution. Structural weaknesses in governance, lack of state presence in remote regions and interethnic rivalries, are among causes that the state is failing to address. In the last 30 years, different interventions have been addressing partial symptoms of the problem rather than looking at the full picture - till that is not done, you can only postpone, but not resolve, the issue.” 48 seconds ago
  • Bintou Keita
    Bintou Keita “One Congolese person out of four faces hunger and malnutrition. More than 7.1 million people have been displaced in the country. That is 800,000 people more since my last briefing three months ago. The armed group [M23] is making significant advances and expanding its territory to unprecedented levels.” 16 minutes ago
  • Annalena Baerbock
    Annalena Baerbock “He [Putin] makes it more than clear that he is beyond the reach of rational arguments and the values ​​of humanity. And he definitely doesn't want to negotiate. If Putin wins in Ukraine, our security and international order will be at risk. Ukraine's support is our own guarantee of security.” 22 minutes ago
  • Fumio Kishida
    Fumio Kishida “Realizing a fruitful relationship between Japan and North Korea is aligned with the interests of both sides.” 28 minutes ago
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Saudi Arabia

Page with all the IPSEs stored in the archive related to Saudi Arabia.
The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

“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.”

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Saudi Arabia's foreign minister
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“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.”

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Saudi Crown Prince
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“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.”

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

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Saudi pro-government commentator
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“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.”

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

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Weapons expert and professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies
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“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.”

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

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

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Executive Director of the International Energy Agency
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“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.”

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Crown prince, deputy prime minister, and minister of defense of Saudi Arabia
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“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.”

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Research fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad
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“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.”

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UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
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“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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King of Saudi Arabia
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“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
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