Day: May 22, 2021

Jeddah, The Saudi- headquartered Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has voiced appreciation for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chair of the Islamic Summit, for its efforts and communication with international key players to step up pressure on the Israeli occupation government to end its attacks and unilateral measures in Jerusalem and Gaza.

The OIC valued in a statement the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud’s assertion to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Kingdom’s continued efforts to build an intensified international pressure on the Israeli occupation government to put an end to its measures and attacks against Jerusalem and occupied Palestinian territory.

The organization has also valued the efforts of the Islamic State members at the UN Security Council to achieve ceasefire and end bloodshed in the occupied Palestinian Territories.

Upon an invitation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the OIC held an emergency meeting on May 16 at the foreign ministers’ level to discuss the Israeli attacks on Palestinians, especially in AlQuds AlSharif and Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound and issued a communique rejecting and denouncing the Israeli occupation and continued attacks on the Palestinian Territories.

The OIC had renewed its call on the international community to intensify efforts to push for a comprehensive and lasting settlement to the Palestinian question on the basis of the two-state and the Arab Peace Initiative.

Source: Saudi Press Agency

Riyadh, Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority has managed to foil two attempts to smuggle 306.5 kg of Hashish quantities, at Wadiah crossing and Jazan port.

The quantities were found hidden in two trucks arriving in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through the two outlets.

As much as 115 kg was seized in Jazan, while 191 kg was seized, and 191 kg was seized in Wadiah.

The authority lauded the unlimited support the authority and its outlets receive from the wise leadership, such as installing new sophisticated techniques and equipment, at all outlets, a matter that strongly helped in exposing, detecting and foiling various trafficking attempts, into the Kingdom.

Source: Saudi Press Agency

Moscow, Chairman of the Commission on Information and Media of the Russian Federation Council Alexey Pushkov affirmed that presidential elections in Syria are necessary and very significant during the current stage.

Pushkov told SANA reporter in Moscow on Saturday that the presidential elections confirm to the whole world the real legitimacy of the Syrian state ,and strengthen the military victories against the armed terrorist groups on the Syrian territories.

He said that the Western countries’ refusal to hold presidential elections in Syria stems from the fact that these countries have nothing but hatred to Syria and its people, stressing that the Syrian people are the ones who determine their future and choose their leadership.

He added that pretexts invoked by the West for the illegality of the elections are null, as there are no principled grounds for considering the elections as contrary to the internationally recognized rules.

Pushkov pointed out that the Western countries have funded, armed and supported Daesh(ISIS) terrorist organization over the past years, and are continuing to do so as they have obstructed and continue to obstruct the return of all areas to the authority of the Syrian state.

He stressed that what the US and its allies are doing in Syria by stealing and smuggling the Syrian oil is nothing but desperate attempts to hinder the development of Syria.

He added that the West has lost the main battle after its terrorist agents had been defeated in Syria, and now it is waging diplomatic, media, and economic wars and the war of coercive restrictions.

“Syria has stressed that it is the strongest and has entered the stage of bolstering its victory over terrorism, and this gives it full political legitimacy by holding presidential elections,” Pushkov said.

Source: Syria Arab News Agency