Ambassador Al-Mua'lemi pointed out that since the failure of UN Security Council to make a decision on the situation in Syria because of the regrettable practice of veto rights by some members of the Council, the Syrian regime considers that it has received the green light to crush unarmed citizens in Syria and their revolution. He stressed that the GCC states are ready to be at the forefront of any joint effort aims to save the Syrian people and strengthen their abilities to protect themselves from an authority which has lost its legitimacy once it killed its citizens, adding that the GCC states hold accountable the international community in general, the Security Council in particular, and powers which have exercised their veto rights for moral responsibility for what is happening now in the streets of Baba Amr and its homes, and they will be held accountable by history and conscience if they do not respond positively to the pleas of the Syrian oppressed people. --SPA 12:27 LOCAL TIME 09:27 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/975700