AFP, Riyadh, 22 Feb 2012 – Saudi’s King Abdullah told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that dialogue on Syria was ‘futile’, the official SPA news agency reported Wednesday, hinting at the need for action to halt the bloodshed.
Russia should have ‘coordinated with the Arabs… before using the veto’ to block a resolution on Syria in the UN Security Council, King Abdullah was quoted as saying.
‘But now, dialogue about what is happening in Syria is futile,’ the Saudi monarch told Medvedev in a telephone discussion on the escalating bloodshed.