Arab League in a sentence

Following the cancellation of Syria's suspension of membership in the Arab League and the presence of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at the Arab League summit, Arab states are returning their relations with Damascus to normal gradually.

Following a 1998 Arab League meeting in which fellow Arab states decided not to challenge U.N. sanctions, Gaddafi announced that he was turning his back on pan-Arab ideas, one of the fundamental tenets of his philosophy.

An urgent meeting of the Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers would be held soon to discuss the recent developments in Libya, the Arab League announced on Friday.

However, the Arab League continues to raise it as a possible solution, and meetings between the Arab League and Israel have been held.

A general view shows the opening session of the meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the Arab League Headquarters, to discuss the Sudan and Syrian situations, in Cairo, Egypt May 7, 2023.

Earlier this year, Syria’s membership in the Arab League was reinstated and Assad attended the Arab summit that was held in Saudi Arabia in May.

He pointed out the resumption of Syria’s participation in the meetings of the Arab League will contribute to strengthening this cooperation to serve the higher Arab issues and the interests of the member states.

Recently, Arab states have been trying to reach consensus on whether to invite Assad to an Arab League summit on May 19 in Riyadh to discuss the pace of normalising ties and on what terms Syria could be allowed back.

Syria was expelled from the 22-member Arab League in 2011, and Arab countries have sanctioned Damascus and condemned its use of military force against the opposition.

In fact, the Arab League made the Palestinians into refugees when it told them to leave the land, to which they could return after the Arab states had slaughtered the Jews of the Land of Israel and installed the Palestinian Arabs as supreme rulers.

Comments from the Turkish Foreign Ministry specifically refer to the “unilateral” nature of this move and how it counteracts the Arab Peace Initiative that had been spearheaded by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and enacted by the Arab League.

It was in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, after the Arab-Israeli War of 1967 that the Arab League announced its “three no’s” resolution, which opposed peace, negotiations and recognition of Israel.

There is further the Arab League made up of 21 Arab nations.

Egypt was subsequently ostracized by other Arab states and ejected from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989.

In keeping with an Arab League resolution in 1965, most Arab countries have refused to grant citizenship to Palestinians, arguing that it would be a threat to their right of return to their homes in Palestine.

Neighbouring Arab states and the Arab League were opposed to the vote and had declared they would intervene to prevent its implementation.

The Arab League affirmed the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and called on all the Arab states, including Jordan, to undertake to defend Palestinian national unity and not to interfere in internal Palestinian affairs.

After more than a decade of being banned from the Arab League, Syria is reportedly going to be invited to the organization’s next summit, which will be held in Saudi Arabia in May.

Al-Tai called on the Arab League to enforce fees on international media companies, with the money used in funding media entities in the region.

Among those in attendance were Mr. Guterres, heads of the Arab League and representatives of the European Union.