2023-11-11 07:50:03
Al-Marsad newspaper: Kuwaiti diplomat Abdullah Bishara and the first Secretary of the Gulf Cooperation Council revealed the behind-the-scenes state of panic and dismay that spread in the corridors of the United Nations after the decision of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to cut off oil in 1973 during the October War.
Bishara said during his interview with the Middle East Programme: The United Nations entered into an unimaginable panic. Those who were not there could not imagine the magnitude of the world’s need for oil and the magnitude of the world’s interests in the Gulf region. This world was keen on the safety of the Gulf states, and the panic became unreasonable, and it was formed. Committees provided opinions.
He continued that the one who benefited from this decision was President Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria from 1976 to 1978 AD. The Algerian president arrived and asked to hold a special session of the United Nations in the name of the session to declare the new global economic order. He was received at the airport and said to him at the time, “I do not imagine the Gulf, especially the Gulf.” Sheikh Zayed punishes America and places sanctions on it,” noting that the countries that stopped oil from America and Europe are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the Emirates, while the rest of the countries only declared that they did not stop.
He added that Boumediene and the Algerian delegation then adopted the demands of the Africans, as they exported raw materials at cheap prices and did not benefit from them because the managers were foreign companies. He demanded that these companies must do justice to the African exporting countries.
He pointed out that the Dutch representative came to him at that time and said to him, “Why do you impose sanctions? What sin have we committed?” and this is a word he has not forgotten.
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