UN General Assembly
2014

Development Goals. Accordingly, the strategies and preparations for the post-2015 development agenda are also based on tireless work, determination, persistence, good faith and comprehensive planning and are aimed at promoting continual and enhanced progress and serving the interests of the Kingdom’s citizens and residents alike. Our region is going through a phase of extreme difficulty — probably the most difficult in its modern history — in which a climate of instability, chaos, tension and savage, bloody and unprecedented terrorism prevails. Of the many contributing factors, the most salient are the following. First, the accelerated emergence of terrorist groups of various global dimensions and affiliations. They thrive in our region, exhibiting the greatest savagery and callousness. Not only do they target innocent people in general, they also engage in such inhumane practices as mass murder, public beheadings and the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, which they displace, destroying their cultural heritage, depriving them of religious freedom and causing them to flee their homes. They attack entire cities and declare war on sovereign countries in regional and international