(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency)
Brussels, Jumada II 07, 1439, February 23, 2018, SPA -- Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir said: Qatar does not appear as the media shows to the world while it is hiding behind a dark side that supports terrorism and finances it and the boycotting countries want Qatar to stop such practices and violations and return to the GCC table.
Saud Minister stressed in statements to the members of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the European Parliament, that the nuclear agreement with Iran suffers from shortcomings, and the international community must amend the agreement.
Al-Jubeir also stressed that the Kingdom supports any agreement that prevents Iran from obtaining nuclear capabilities guarantees steady and a solid inspection mechanism and includes punitive measures in case that Tehran does not comply with, pointing out that the nuclear agreement needs to be amended. He said that the position of the Administration of US President Donald Trump and we think the inspection system on the nuclear agreement is weak and should include undeclared military sites. The inspection is limited to declared sites and this is not enough because most of the sites associated with the Iranian nuclear program were not disclosed by Iran, for example, the site near to Qom City.
In another context, Al-Jubeir confirmed that all ports and airports in Yemen are open and that there is ongoing work to increase the absorptive capacity in a number of Yemeni ports, pointing out that there is untrue information for some things, the Houthi militias are detonating cranes from inside and people blame the coalition.
On the Syrian crisis, : We believe in solutions based on Security Council Resolution 2254 and we believe that there should be a political process and a new constitution for Syria, there must be also new elections, pointing out that the solution in Syria is to stop the fighting and bring stability in the Syrian areas for delivering of humanitarian aid.
With regard to human rights and the judicial system in the Kingdom, Al-Jubeir stressed that states should respect the sovereignty of the Kingdom in its judicial system just as the United States has the death penalty, Saudi Arabia has a judicial system that also provides the death penalty.
In response to a question regarding the judgments issued against handed down by a number of individuals in the Kingdom, he pointed out that the sentenced individuals are Saudis who were convicted according to the Saudi laws by the Saudi courts and are executing the judgment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
--SPA
19:46 LOCAL TIME 16:46 GMT
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