Keynote Address by Prince Turki Al Faisal [2020 Arab-US Policymakers Conference]

"Keynote Address by Prince Turki Al Faisal"

29th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference:
"The Next U.S. Presidency: Implications for the U.S.-Arab Relationship"

Organized by the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations
17 November 2020
Virtual Conference

Welcome:

Mr. Leo A. Daly III – LEO A DALY Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Introduction:

Dr. John Duke Anthony – National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Founding President and Chief Executive Officer; Author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum; Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia; and The United Arab Emirates: Dynamics of State Formation.

Speaker:

HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal Al Saud – King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies Chairman; former Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United Kingdom and to the United States; former Saudi Arabian General Intelligence Directorate Director General.

[aminmustafa]

Prince Turkey Al Faisal like a TIGER. one of the Best diplomat in the world

[azzamjaber]

Prince Turkey Al Faisal, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. What a magnificent speech. God bless you..

[abozzzam]

I am a Saudi citizen studying in the U.S.
My political science courses in the united states have taught me well about the country which the U.S. founding fathers envisioned and aimed to build. I read that your country went through great deal of change. From the establishment of the central banking system by Alexander Hamilton, to the abolition of slavery. After 300 years of such history, it comes to me as a surprise why does your government's officials not understand that other nations progress is a fruit of their own social and political growth, just like yours. It is time for western politicians to expect to be scrutinized by "concerned" Saudis about the embarrassing job they did to combat the COVID19. We are citizens of the same world, and it is continually connecting. Saudis will no longer entertain hateful rhetoric against our country, its leaders and people. Because this pandemic has proven without any doubt that the democratic nature of western countries, has produced ill equipped governments in the face of true crisis, yet very good at delegating the blame on the other party, only good in winning elections and entertaining the hateful, stereotypical ridden and unproductive rhetoric of the common man. Not knowing that other citizens of the world are listening. The theatricals western politicians are playing are no longer only harmful to their societies, this pandemic will cause their failure to hurt the world at large.

Sincerely.

A Saudi citizen.