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Saudi Arabia's U.N. ambassador lashed out at the Security Council on Tuesday and indicated that his country is standing by its decision to reject the seat it was elected to on the U.N.'s most powerful body.
It was Abdallah Al-Mouallimi's first public appearance following Saudi Arabia's unprecedented and stunning about-face Friday when it rejected a council seat just hours after the General Assembly elected the Mideast oil giant to serve a two-year term.
Al-Mouallimi delivered a scathing attack on the Security Council's failures to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Syria, and to convene a conference on creating a zone in the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction at a day-long council meeting Tuesday on Mideast hotspots.
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