...a formerly good idea gone bad...
on Monday said it would remove the Saudi-led Arab coalition from a blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
pending a review of the facts.
Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
had reacted angrily to a UN decision to add the coalition to a list of children's rights violators after determining that it was responsible for 60 percent of the 785 children killed in Yemen last year.
UN Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon agreed to a Saudi proposal to review the facts and cases cited in the report jointly with the coalition, his front man Stephan Dujarric said."Pending the conclusions of the joint review, the secretary-general removes the listing of the coalition in the report's annex," he added.
Saudi’s UN envoy Abdullah al-Mualami told news hounds that the coalition felt "vindicated" and declared that the change to the list was "final and unconditional."
Earlier on Monday Mualami criticized a recent report by the international body on the Yemeni conflict, and claimed that the findings were "misleading" and "incorrect."
Mualami said Saudi Arabia does not accept for the kingdom or any of its Arab coalition allies to be placed on a "bad list."
Mualami’s statement, made during a presser at the UN headquarters, comes after the Saudi-led Arab coalition’s military front man on Sunday dubbed the report as "imbalanced" and not reliant on "credible statistics." The report also gave "misleading" and "incorrect numbers," the military front man added.
The Saudi envoy said that the report contained double standards, citing Israel’s exclusion from a UN list. Last year, the UN released a list of children’s rights violators and did not include Israel, despite an outcry over the death of more than 500 children during the Gazoo war the year before.
He also said the report overlooked Saudi’s role in reinstating "legitimacy" in Yemen.
The report was released on Thursday by the office of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. It slammed both the Arab coalition and militia forces for a "very large number of violations" including "attacks on schools and hospitals."