Honorary President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, Mr. Mohamed Abou El-Enein, stressed that Israel persists in the lack of respect for international resolutions, particularly the cessation of settlements, because it finds itself with impunity. Thus, the United Nations should take deterrent measures against Israel, as is one of its members, if its failure to comply with international legitimacy continues.
During his speech before Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, at the UN General Assembly 71st. session, Mr. Abou El-Enein said that the international community must take the initiative to provide protection for the Palestinian people under occupation. Sending international peacekeeping forces should be considered to secure the Palestinian people from the Israeli forces and the terror of settlers groups.
He added that terrorism is the main threat to international peace and security. In addition, it leads to other no less serious threats such as illegal migration, extremism, xenophobia, human trafficking and antiquities and weapons illegal trade. The United Nations must continue to lead efforts to fight terrorism and adopt a proactive strategy to address its roots and causes and drain its resources.
Mr. Abou El-Enein noted “Terrorism has rebounded in light of the weakness of the state and the collapse of its institutions in some areas such as Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Afghanistan. Our priority must be supporting the state institutions in these countries and in other countries as Egypt, which is fighting on the front lines of the war on terrorism. The international community should provide technical, military and economic aid to enable the state agencies in these countries to eliminate terrorism.
He stressed Egypt has spent more than a year and a half fighting terrorism on its own after the popular revolution in the June 30, 2013, adding that this revolution was against a terrorist group that represents the ideological cloak for all terrorist organizations and religious terrorism in the region.
Mr. Abou El-Enein pointed out to the initiative of President Sisi two years ago and his call to renew the religious discourse, calling upon the world to more support for Egypt and other countries that are fighting terrorism, not only through the cessation of funding and weapons for terrorist groups, but also by encouraging investment, tourism and trade with Egypt, which would provide employment opportunities for youth and help drying sources of terrorism.
He urged the United Nations to continuing its efforts to complete the implementation of Al-Sokhirat agreement on Libya, and to support the state institutions there, especially the national army and lifting arms embargo imposed on it, in order to enable it to extend its control over the entire Libyan territory and fight terrorist groups.
He added that everyone is deeply saddened by the continued humanitarian suffering in Syria. Despite all the efforts to deal with the humanitarian consequences and alleviate the suffering of the population, dealing with the roots of the crisis requires reaching a just and comprehensive political solution to the crisis, a solution that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people and preserves the unity of Syria and its territorial integrity.
He called the Secretary-General to ask his Special Envoy to Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, to call all parties to hold a new round of negotiations at the earliest to reach a political solution, noting that any future agreement to halt the fighting, or any arrangements to ensure access to humanitarian aid, will not hold without a political horizon to address the roots of the crisis and reach a final solution.
