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The Arab League (League of Arab States) The Arab League (League of Arab States)
Founded: 22 March 1945
Administrative Center: Cairo, Egypt
Secretary-General: Nabil el-Araby
Website: Arab League Onlilne
Sudan and South Sudan
- Sudan joined the Arab League 19 January 1956, ten days after independence from Anglo-Egyptian rule.
- South Sudan, which seceded from Sudan on 9 July 2012, has the option to join the Arab League.
Membership:
- Suspended from Mar 1979 to May 1989.
- Merged with Egypt to form United Arab Republic 22 Feb 1958; seceded from U.A.R. 28 Sep 1961 and rejoined Arab League 28 Oct 1961. Suspended from 16 Nov 2011.
- From 1949 Jordan.
- Yemen (Aden) and Yemen (Sana) united in 1990.
- Libya announced its withdrawal 24 Oct 2002; this would be effective one year later; Libya canceled (16 Jan 2003), reaffirmed (3 Apr 2003), and again canceled (25 May 2003) the decision to withdraw.
- Syria was suspended in November 2011 over its disproportionate violence against regime opponents and activists during the Arab Spring.
Secretary-Generals
- 1 Jul 2011 - Present | Nabil el-Araby | Egypt | b. 1935
- 15 May 2001 - 1 Jul 2011 | Amr Moussa | Egypt | b. 1936
- 15 May 1991 - 15 May 2001 | Esmat Abdel Meguid | Egypt | b. 1923
- Sep 1990 - 15 May 1991 | Assad al-Assad (acting) | Lebanon | b. 1920
- Mar 1979 - Sep 1990 | Chedli Klibi | Tunisia | b. 1925
- 1 Jun 1972 - Mar 1979 | Mahmoud Riad | Egypt | b. 1917 - d. 1992
- Sep 1952 - 1 Jun 1972 | Abdel Khaliq Hassuna | Egypt | b. 1898 - d. 1992
- 22 Mar 1945 - Sep 1952 | Abdel Rahman Azzam (from 27 Dec 1945, Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha) | Egypt | b. 1893 - d. 1976
Links / Sources
- Monday 13 June 2011
June 12, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The soon-to-be independent state of South Sudan is perfectly entitled to join the League of Arab States (LAS), according to the organization’s envoy in Juba.
South Sudan, whose population is ethnically African (...)
- Monday 21 March 2005
CAIRO, Mar 21, 2005 (Xinhua) — The 18th Arab summit will be held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on March 16, 2006, Egypt’s official MENA news agency learnt Monday.
According to the Arab League charter, Djibouti was supposed to (...)
- Tuesday 14 February 2012
February 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Arab League revealed that it has put forward an initiative to address the humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile states, which lie on the Sudan-South Sudan border. Sudanese refugees (...)
- Tuesday 14 February 2012
February 13, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Khartoum has no intention of severing diplomatic ties with Syria on the grounds of Damascus’s deadly crackdown on protesters, an official said on Monday. Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti (L) speaks during (...)
- Sunday 3 June 2012
June 2, 2012 (KHARTIOUM) — The Arab League announced its full solidarity with Sudan in its dispute with South Sudan and welcomed the resumption talks between the two parties under the auspices of the African Union mediation team. Arab (...)
- Sunday 7 February 2010
February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Arab League slammed on Saturday the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to reconsider genocide charge against Sudanese President Omer al- Bashir terming it as "unacceptable."
"This action (...)
- Thursday 21 February 2013
February 20, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – Egypt intends to soon ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and utilise a loophole that allows it to avoid apprehending Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, an (...)
- Friday 3 February 2012
February 2, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The head of the Arab League observer mission to Syria, General Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi slammed the Arab and Sudanese media saying that it has failed to understand the nature of his mandate which is (...)
- Friday 16 April 2004
KHARTOUM, April 16, 2004 (SUNA) — Minister of Finance and National Economy Al-Zubayr Ahmad Hasan, is due to lead Sudan’s delegation to the meeting of the third session of the joint Sudanese-Qatari ministerial committee, scheduled to be (...)
- Sunday 13 November 2011
November 12, 2011 (WASHINGTON) – The Syrian ambassador to the Arab League Yussef al-Ahmad on Saturday lashed out at the Sudanese government for approving a resolution suspending his country’s membership in the Pan-Arab body. Yussef (...)
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