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Turkey has "completely rejected" on Friday the decisions adopted by the Arab League foreign ministers' meeting held on Wednesday, accusing Turkey of meddling in internal affairs of Arab countries,...
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Arab Foreign Ministers approved on Wednesday the reappointment of Ahmed Aboul Gheit for a second term as Secretary-General of the Arab League. The vote was said to be unanimous....
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has called for Syria's membership to the Arab League to be restored, saying it would achieve the principle of integration in Arab work and...
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Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo yesterday on an official visit during which he will meet President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and a number of...
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Arab parliament Speaker Adel Abdul-Rahman Al-Asoumi welcomed on Monday a presidential decree on holding parliamentary, presidential and Palestinian National Council elections, a statement sent to the media announced. He reiterated the...
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Israel's annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights "is null and void and has no legal standing," Arab news agencies reported the Arab League saying yesterday. In a statement...
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The League of Arab States again called for the need to exert pressure on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, especially the elderly, the sick, and people with weak immunity,...
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October 15, 2020
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Yousef Al-Helou
The State of Palestine has recently abandoned its right to chair the Council of the Arab League for the current session, in response to the wave of normalisation with the Israeli...
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Libya yesterday said it would not take over the presidency of the Arab League's current session. In an official statement by Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mohammed Al-Qiblawi, the Libyan representative...
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October 1, 2020
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Muhammad Ismat
As the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain initiate diplomatic relations with Israel, with the implicit blessing of Saudi Arabia, enormous strategic changes are on the horizon. We can think...
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September 30, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley
The Arab League has a reputation for being full of men overburdened by their own sense of importance. This, though, could be about to change because of one small...
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The Palestine Liberation Organisation said on Monday that remarks made by the Secretary General of the Arab League about making peace with Israel were "false", Al-Watan Voice has reported....
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The State of Qatar refused to assume the presidency of the 154th regular session of the Arab League at the ministerial level instead of Palestine, which has recently resigned...
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The rejection of the Palestinian draft resolution by the Arab League was not a self-inflicted coup de grâce, but rather the last nail in its coffin; the league has...
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September 18, 2020
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Dr Mustafa Fetouri
The so-called "Abraham Accord", as the deal between the UAE and Israel is known, arrived faster than even the most enthusiastic Zionists could have imagined, even if secret negotiations...
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September 18, 2020
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Dr Mohammed Al-Misfer
There has been a breach in the Arab Front in favour of Israel against Palestine. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has caused a wide rift in the Gulf for...
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I did not expect a courageous response from the so-called Arab league regarding the UAE-Israel normalisation agreement, because the dead cannot talk, and the Arab League is basically dead...
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s normalisation with Israel is a "major shift in the Middle East countries' policy towards the Israeli state," US senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner,...
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September 11, 2020
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Motasem A Dalloul
Prior to the meeting of the Arab League on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki called on his Arab counterparts to reject the United Arab Emirates...
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Four Arab states have expressed their reservations regarding the Arab League statement in which foreign affairs ministers objected to what they termed "Turkish interference in Arab affairs". The foreign...
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Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister, Riyad Al-Maliki, yesterday called on Arab countries to reject the UAE-Israel normalisation treaty. "We reject Emirati normalisation and we hope you will have the same...
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Secretary of PLO's Executive Committee Saeb Erekat revealed yesterday that most Arab countries have stopped paying their dues towards the Palestinian budget, Al-Khaleej Online reported. Marking the start of preparations for...
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Some Arab countries have been exerting pressure on the Palestinians to accept the 'peace plan' drawn up by US President Donald Trump, diplomatic sources have said. The sources told...
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A prominent Fatah leader spoke of the Arab League's neglect of the Palestinian leadership's request to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the UAE's decision to normalise relations with...
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Lt. Gen. Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, deputy head of Dubai Police and General Security, has called on Arab countries to normalise relations with Israel and allow it to join the...
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Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)'s Executive Committee Saeb Erekat called on Friday for Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul-Gheit to condemn the United Arab Emirate (UAE)'s normalisation deal...
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August 13, 2020
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Adel Suleiman
The horrific explosion that struck Beirut port on 4 August resulted in a comprehensive humanitarian catastrophe that spread across the entire Lebanese capital, with 200 people killed and a...
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The Arab League requires "profound reforms", the Speaker of the Moroccan Parliament, Habib Al-Malki, said yesterday. "The Arab world's current conditions are not well," Al-Malki told Palestine Today, stressing that...
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun called on Arab countries today to support Lebanon in the wake of a massive explosion at the Beirut port, Anadolu Agency reports. "Lebanon needs any...
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The Arab Parliament of the Arab League yesterday approved a "unified strategy" against both Turkey and Iran, local media has reported. The statement made by the parliament came in...
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Libya has expressed reservations at the eighth item of the Arab League's resolution. The eighth clause of the League's decision states "welcoming the Cairo Declaration on Libya, issued on 6/6/2020, which...
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Libya's United Nations (UN) recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) will boycott Arab League talks on the conflict next week, i24 reports. Libya's Foreign Minister Mohamed Taher Siala has...