Unofficial transcript 
Agenda item 37 “Question of Palestine”, November 29, 2012

SAUDI ARABIA:  Mr. President, Excellencies, yesterday the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to recognize Palestine as a country which deserves life.  And once again today, we vote to endorse the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people -- the right to freedom, dignity, sovereignty over its own land and self-determination.  The vote that we witnessed yesterday was a voice of history.  It was a harmony.  It was a symphony of peace, independence and freedom.  At the same time, it was a cry in the face of injustice, aggression, occupation and racism.
How fortunate it is that this vote is only a few days -- takes place only a few days after the barbaric aggression launched by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza.  The echoes coming from New York affirm that the voice of right is much higher than the cries of injustice and that the harmony of peace, the symphony of peace is much better than the drums of war, and of the freedom -- the flowers of freedom will not be emaciated by the tanks of occupation.
Mr. President, Mecca and Medina look forward with longing to Holy Jerusalem, awaiting a day when the blessed Aqsa Mosque is freed from imprisonment and Jerusalem comes back as the capital, the eternal capital of the Palestinian people and its independent state once and for all.  Then the dream of King Faisal Ibn Abdulaziz to pray on the Aqsa Mosque, the dream which has become the dream of his brothers and his people.
The dream has become today the depository for all Saudis, foremost among whom is King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Shrines, the monarch who launched his historic message to -- for dialogue among the peoples of all countries and all cultures and religions.  This message, which represents Jerusalem with all its mosques, churches and synagogues, a real embodiment of that message when it breaks the shackles of occupation, persecution and racism.  Let us thank all who voted for this resolution, those who took the rightful place among people who support justice.
And we hope that others would realize that they have to catch onto the train of history.  They have to move to accept the application by Palestinian for full membership in the United Nations.  They have to end the occupation to bring about peace and achieve a full independence of Palestine in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy and legality.  I thank you, Mr. President.