Riyadh- Shaffaf
Information from Riyadh indicate that KSA is in the process of re-evaluating its foreign policy in the light of the successive failures suffered in the past two years as a result of Foreign Minister Saoud al Faisal’s mandatory retirement, and reassigning it to King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz’s son, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah and Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz, head of the Intelligence Services in the Kingdom.
Sources added that KSA is convinced as a result of the foreign policy’s failure, reinforced by the recent success of the Iranian pressure in agreement with Damascus on renaming the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki for a second term, as well as the issuance of the Syrian regime’s arrest warrants against the 33 Lebanese and Arab and international personalities, accounting as a flagrant violation of the agreements and covenants made by Damascus to Riyadh on Lebanon and the International Tribunal.
In the wake of these arrest warrants which are perceived as a blatant attack on Lebanese sovereignty, life has returned to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah’s failure in dissuading the Syrian regime in moving forward in its evil plot on Lebanon. As a result, Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul Gheit met his Saoudi counterpart Saoud al Faisal who is opposed to the Syrian Regime.
Information adds that KSA foreign Ministry is relieving Prince Abdul Aziz and Prince Muqrin of their foreign policy duties in the light of the reinforced conviction that an understanding with the Syrian regime has become almost impossible. Consequently, KSA is preparing its repositioning back to the time before year 2005 and to Prince Saoud al Faisal’s word after he left Qraytem palace in the wake of PM Rafiq Hariri’s assassination.
Information points out that KSA in its foreign policy is currently focused on frantically seeking to delay the possible explosion in Lebanon in addition to its adherence to the International Tribunal, especially after KSA was convinced that the efforts to either delay the indictment or to abolish the trial will not reach any result in the light of the International community’s hold on the tribunal, not because it is Lebanese, but because it is keen on the credibility of the international community as well as the other tribunals in Rwanda, Congo, Sudan, Serbia and others.
Negotiations in KSA are revolving around the best ways to rewrite the foreign policy without taking into consideration any illusions regarding Syria’s turn towards the Arab and international community, and to give back faith to the Cedars Revolution in Lebanon, as well as to review the Iraqi situation and find a way to stop Maliki from winning his next term in order to prevent Iran’s total control on Iraq.