Amman, Sept. 19 (Petra) — Chairman of the Lower House Palestine
Committee MP Suleiman Al-Saud said trust is the foundation of
international cooperation, commitment, transparency, respect for the
law, and fulfillment of pledges, as well as confidence in the
international community’s ability to turn declared principles into
actions that apply equally to all without exception.

Speaking during the World Peoples Assembly in Moscow, attended by
parliamentarians, leaders, and representatives from more than 150
countries, and in the presence of the Assembly’s Secretary-General
Andrey Belyaninov, Al-Saud said respect for international law could
not be selective.

If international law is a common framework for humanity, its
provisions and principles must be applied to everyone without
exception, he stressed.

He said trust could not be built through words alone but through
actions, procedures, and practical positions, calling on
international institutions, foremost among them the United Nations
and the International Criminal Court, as well as humanitarian and
human rights organizations, to fulfill their responsibilities in
restoring the standing of international law and strengthening
peoples’ confidence in its institutions.

“It is impossible to build trust in a world where some believe
certain states are subject to the law while others, including the
Israeli occupying state, are given room to escape accountability for
violations that are supposed to be governed by the same rules,”
Al-Saud said.

He said Palestine remains the clearest test in the Middle East of the
credibility of commitment to international law, stressing that
sustainable peace and cooperation among peoples cannot be achieved
while the occupation continues and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and
the West Bank continue to suffer.

A just peace cannot be based on force or the imposition of a fait
accompli but must rest on justice, respect for rights, an end to the
occupation, the implementation of a two-state solution, and the
establishment of an independent Palestinian state, he said.

Al-Saud said Jordan believes dialogue and cooperation offer the most
sustainable means of addressing crises, noting that Jordan continues
to shoulder its historic and religious responsibility toward
Jerusalem and its Muslim and Christian holy sites under the Hashemite
Custodianship, reflecting the Kingdom’s message of love and
tolerance.

Addressing participants, he asked, “What does it mean to speak of
trust while new chapters of suffering are being written in Gaza
before the eyes of the world? And what does it mean to speak of
international law while homes are destroyed, families displaced,
civilians killed, people are besieged on their own land, and an
entire people is left facing a humanitarian tragedy?”

//Petra// AF