Yousuf bin Alawi – Statement

      Muscat, Sept 26 (ONA)-- Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs has said what had been demonstrated by the Arab street during the past days towards the incidents which occurred in the U.S. should be looked at as part of the pressure on the international community to speed up in efforts putting things in their right path and to tell Israel that it was enough. 

     He said all international agreements, resolutions and conferences concerning the Palestinian cause should be viewed in their real perspective and that Israel had to understand the shape of its relation with its neighbors which was defined through those international resolutions and stances. 

     In a meeting held today with reporters who were invited to cover the speech of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said before the Council of Oman, the Minister said some convictions have started to appear that the Palestinian cause and the Arab-Israeli conflict was taking another perspective which was always endeavored by the Arabs. Alawi added that “An opportunity was available for the international community to reconsider its acts to find a world free of shortcomings”. 

     He said regardless of whether the doer of this action was influenced by the bias of the U.S. policy for Israel or not, the Arab street had long awaited for the international community to look into the Arab cause in the perspective of justice, noting that these incidents would not affect the Arab stance towards its cause, on the contrary it would provide it with more power and persistence. 

     He noted that these incidents which were an unprecedented catastrophe had divided the public opinion between those who condemned it, those who denounced it and those who felt happy, but even those who felt happy at the beginning have finally changed their minds and realized that what had happened was not accepted by human beings. 

     Alawi said the U.S. public opinion which at first assumed that the middle-east may be responsible for the incidents changed its stand in the recent period. 

     The Minister said there was unanimity that the so-called Qaeda organisation led by Osama bin Laden was responsible for these incidents.

--More/k/fs