The League of Arab States

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.

Arab League website(Arabic)

Arab League(Wikipedia)

More information(IMF website)

Flag of the Arab League(alternativesite)


Arab League documents

Alexandria Protocol7 October, 1944

Charter of the Arab League22 March, 1945

Cultural Treaty1946 (alternativesite)

Arab League Declaration on the Invasion of Palestine15 May, 1948

Joint Defence and Economic Cooperation Treaty1950-52 (alternativesite)

Arab Charter on Human Rights15 September, 1994

Arab Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism22 April 1998

Sessions of the Arab League

Secretaries-General of the Arab League

Internal Regulations of the Council1951

Internal Regulations of the Committees1951

Internal Regulations of the Secretariat-General1953

The Arab League Satellite Broadcasting Charter2008


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 inAin-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