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1969 Nov 3 |
The Arab League brokered a deal in Cairo that gave the PLO in Lebanon refugee camps freedom of government interference. They reached an agreement that effectively endorsed PLO freedom of action in Lebanon to recruit, arm, train, and employ fighters against Israel. The Lebanese Army protected their bases and supply lines. Links: Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Arab League 
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1973 Nov 28 |
Arab League summit in Algiers recognized Palestine. Links: Algeria, Palestine, Arab League
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1976 Nov 15 |
A Syrian peace force took control of Beirut, Lebanon. The Arab League gave Syria a peacekeeping mandate. Links: Syria, Lebanon, Arab League
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1978 Jul 2 |
The Arab League imposed a boycott on South Yemen. Links: Yemen, Arab League
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1979 Mar 31 |
The Arab League suspended Egypt following its treaty with Israel. Links: Egypt, Israel, Arab League
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1981 |
Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia proposed an 8-point peace plan to end the Arab-Israeli conflict. It was adopted by the Arab League after some controversy. Links: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Arab League
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1990 May 28 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opened a two-day Arab League summit in Baghdad with a keynote address in which he said if Israel were to deploy nuclear or chemical weapons against Arabs, Iraq would respond with "weapons of mass destruction." Links: Iraq, Arab League
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1992 Jan 25 |
Mahmoud Riad (b.1917), Egyptian diplomat and sec-gen of Arab League (1972-79), died. Links: Egypt, Arab League
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1992 Mar 23 |
The president of the U.N. Security Council announced that Libya had offered to surrender two men suspected in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League. Libya reversed itself two days later; however, the suspects surrendered for trial seven years later. One was subsequently convicted, the other found innocent. Links: Libya, UN, Arab League
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1992 Mar 25 |
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi backed away from an offer to turn over two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 to the Arab League. Links: Libya, Arab League
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1994 Sep 15 |
An Arab Charter on Human Rights was adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States. Links: Arab League
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1996 Dec 1 |
The Arab League held an emergency meeting in Cairo, after which it warned Israel that peace efforts would be endangered if Israel insisted on expanding Jewish settlements. Links: Egypt, Israel, Arab League
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1998 Feb 2 |
Russia announced that an envoy in Baghdad received concessions from Saddam Hussein on UN weapons inspections. US Sec. Albright failed to get permission from Saudi Arabia for US use of air bases to launch air strikes against Iraq. France, Turkey, Jordan, the Arab League and Yasser Arafat said they would send envoys to Baghdad to avert a possible US military strike. Links: Iraq, Turkey, Russia, USA, France, Palestine, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Arab League
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2000 Sep 3 |
In Egypt a 2-day meeting of Arab League foreign ministers opened. Yasser Arafat said he would not accept a peace deal without control of Jerusalem. Links: Egypt, Arab League
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2001 May 19 |
The Arab League called on Arab governments to sever political contacts with Israel until the Jewish state ended military action against Palestinians. Links: Israel, Palestine, Arab League
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2002 Mar 27 |
In Beirut the Arab League opened a summit of its 22 member states. Egypt's Pres. Mubarek did not attend. It dissolved into chaos when Palestinian delegates stalked out when Arafat was not given a prominent place for a live broadcast. Arafat endorsed the peace initiative of Prince Abdullah. Links: Palestine, Lebanon, Arab League
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2002 Mar 28 |
In Beirut the Arab League committed to accepting Israel as a neighbor under conditions that included the creation of an independent Palestinian state and Israel's full withdrawal from war-won lands, an offer that Israel did not accept. Links: Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Arab League
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2002 Apr 6 |
Arab League ministers in emergency session denounced the Bush administration's handling of the Middle East conflict. Some 15k Jordanians marched in Ibrid. Over 20k marched in Paris and another 20k marched in Rome. Links: Italy, USA, France, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Arab League
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2002 May 10 |
Arab leaders pressed Yasser Arafat to stop suicide bombings as Israel delayed a strike into Gaza. Links: Israel, Palestine, Arab League
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2003 Mar 24 |
Arab League foreign ministers adopted a resolution that called for the US and Britain to withdraw their troops from Iraq immediately and without conditions. Links: Iraq, Britain, USA, Arab League
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2003 Dec 22 |
Leaders of Arab countries from the Persian Gulf agreed to form a pact to combat terrorism and praised Washington for planning to transfer power to Iraqis by mid-2004. Links: Iraq, USA, Arab League
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2004 May 22 |
An Arab League summit met for a 2-day session in Tunis. 8 Arab leaders, including Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, failed to show up and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi walked out on the 1st day. Links: Libya, Arab League, Tunisia
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2004 May 23 |
In Tunisia Arab leaders concluded a 2-day summit and committed their countries to political reforms. Links: Arab League, Tunisia
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2005 Feb 21 |
The Arab League chief said that Syria will "soon" take steps to withdraw its army from Lebanese areas in accordance with a 1989 agreement. Tens of thousands of opposition supporters shouted insults at Syria and demanded the resignation of their pro-Syrian government in a Beirut demonstration. Links: Syria, Lebanon, Arab League
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2005 Mar 3 |
An Arab League meeting opened in Cairo. An Arab diplomat said Syria has told Arab countries it needs to keep 3,000 troops and early-warning stations inside Lebanon to maintain its security despite international pressure for a full withdrawal. Saudi Arabia told Syria to withdraw its troops. Links: Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Arab League
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2005 Nov 21 |
In Egypt Iraqi leaders backed a Sunni call for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right" of resistance. The announcement concluded a reconciliation conference backed by the Arab League. Links: Iraq, USA, Egypt, Arab League
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2006 Feb 19 |
Amr Moussa, the head of the Arab League, said that members would meet this week to hammer out a plan for sending millions of dollars a month to the Palestinian Authority, despite US attempts to stop the flow of money to the new Hamas-led government. Links: Palestine, Arab League
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2006 Mar 4 |
The Arab League said it will open offices in Iraq for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, part of its efforts to help reconcile the country's Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish communities. Links: Iraq, Arab League
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2006 Mar 28 |
In Sudan Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa called on Arab leaders to move toward a goal of "entering the nuclear club" and making use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The absence of at least 10 heads of state, including President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, raised concerns of a lackluster summit. Links: Sudan, Arab League
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2006 Mar 28 |
In Sudan Arab leaders promised to fund African soldiers in Darfur from October this year, despite international pressure to allow the United Nations to take over the mission. Links: Sudan, Arab League
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2006 Jul 11 |
President Mahmoud Abbas' office said it had received $50 million from the Arab League, the most international aid Palestinians have gotten since the Islamic militant group Hamas won legislative elections. Links: Palestine, Arab League
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2006 Jul 15 |
Arab foreign ministers held an emergency summit in Cairo over Israel's expanding assault on Lebanon, the worst Israeli attack on its neighbor in 24 years. Links: Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Arab League
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2006 Aug 20 |
Arab League foreign ministers convened in Egypt for an emergency meeting to discuss how to fund reconstruction in war-ravaged Lebanon and defuse Mideast tensions amid rising discord between moderate Arabs and Syria, a main backer of Hezbollah. Links: Egypt, Lebanon, Arab League
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2006 Nov 12 |
Palestinian foreign minister Mahmud Zahar told fellow ministers at an Arab League emergency meeting in Cairo that the costs of rebuilding the north Gaza town of Beit Hanun after deadly Israeli shelling amounts to 50 million dollars. Arab countries decided to lift the financial blockade on Palestinians in response to a US veto on a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-led Palestinian government agreed to an international peace conference with Israel. Links: USA, UN, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Arab League
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2007 Jul 25 |
The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, delegated by the 22-member Arab League, began a historic visit to Israel to formally present an Arab peace plan, saying they were extending "a hand of peace" on behalf of the region. Links: Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Arab League
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2008 Feb |
The 22-member Arab League approved restrictive guidelines for satellite channels. Links: Arab League, Telecom
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2008 Mar 29 |
An Arab League summit in Damascus, where Syrian President Bashar Assad questioned how long Arab nations can keep offering Israel a land-for-peace proposal. Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to prevent insults to religions. Links: Syria, Arab League
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2008 Jul 12 |
The Arab League said it will hold crisis talks on Sudan after reports the International Criminal Court may seek Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir's arrest, amid fears for peace efforts in Darfur. It would mark the first-ever bid by the ICC, based in The Hague, to charge a sitting head of state. The African Union said that plans by the ICC could jeopardize peace efforts in Darfur. Links: Sudan, AU, Arab League, ICC
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2008 Jul 19 |
The Arab League criticized the International Criminal Court's prosecutor for seeking the arrest of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying diplomacy should be given a priority to solve the conflict in Darfur. Links: Sudan, Arab League, ICC
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2008 Sep 12 |
The Sudanese government army and Janjaweed militias launched new attacks in a mountainous area of south Darfur according to rebel claims made the next day. UN boss Ban Ki-moon welcomed the establishment of an Arab League panel led by Qatar that will work with the African Union and United Nations to sponsor peace talks in Sudan's Darfur region. Links: Qatar, UN, Sudan, Arab League
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2008 Dec 31 |
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on an Arab request for a binding and enforceable resolution condemning Israel and halting its military attacks on Gaza. The US immediately called the draft resolution circulated by Libya on behalf of the 22-member Arab League "unacceptable" and "unbalanced" and because it makes no mention of halting the Hamas rocket attacks that led to the Israeli offensive. Links: Libya, UN, Israel, Palestine, Arab League
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2009 Jan 19 |
The Arab League’s 22 leaders met in Kuwait City for a 2-day session on infrastructure projects and ways to deal with the global financial crises. Links: Kuwait, Arab League
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2009 Jan 20 |
In Kuwait the deeply divided Arab League failed to come up with a plan to reconstruct the devastated Gaza Strip and could not agree on whether to back Egyptian peace efforts to end the crisis. Links: Palestine, Kuwait, Arab League
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2009 Mar 16 |
Amr Moussa (b.1936), former Egyptian Foreign Minister and head of the Arab League, said AL countries will not carry out an International Criminal Court request to arrest Sudan's president on charges of war crimes in Darfur. Links: Sudan, Arab League, ICC
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2009 May 28 |
In Senegal UN, African Union, EU and Arab League representatives met with Mauritian political parties in Dakar to discuss upcoming polls and a political stalemate since a coup. Links: Senegal, UN, AU, Arab League, Mauritania
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