The Arab League was established in 1945. It has 22 members:
Algeria,
Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania,
Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab
Emirates, and Yemen. The current Secretary-General
is Amr
Moussa, formerly Egyptian Foreign Minister. He was
appointed at the Arab summit in Amman, in March 2001.
The previous secretaries are: Abdul-Razzaq
Azzam 1945-52, Abdul-Khaleq Hassouna 1952-72, Mahmoud Riyadh
1972-79, Chedi Klibi 1979-90 and Dr Ahmad Esmat Abd al-Maguid
1991-2001.
Arab
League website (Arabic)
Arab
League (Wikipedia)
More
information (IMF website)
Flag of the Arab League (alternative
site)
Documents from Arab summits
Beirut, 27-28 March, 2002
The Arab Peace Initiative - full text
The Beirut Declaration - final communique from the summit (extracts).
Also detailed precis published in Ain-al-Yaqeen
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - text of speech
Yasser Arafat - text of speech delivered by video link
Amman, 27-28 March, 2001
Final statement - full
text
Iraq and Kuwait - draft resolution rejected by Iraq
Cairo 21-22 October, 2000
President
Hosni Mubarak - speech to the inaugural session
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia - text of speech
Arab League documents
Alexandria
Protocol 7 October, 1944
Charter
of the Arab League 22 March, 1945 (alternative
site)
Cultural
Treaty 1946 (alternative
site)
Arab League Declaration on the Invasion of Palestine
15 May, 1948
Joint
Defence and Economic Cooperation Treaty 1950-52 (alternative
site)
Arab Charter on Human Rights
15 September, 1994
Arab
Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism 22 April 1998
Sessions
of the Arab League
Secretaries-General
of the Arab League
Internal
Regulations of the Council 1951
Internal
Regulations of the Committees 1951
Internal
Regulations of the Secretariat-General 1953 |
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