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Arab League

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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A meeting of representatives of the member states of the Arab League was held in Cairo on April 28–29, 1965. During the session, which was boycotted by Tunisia, a resolution was adopted under which the Arab heads of state rejected any call for recognition, reconciliation, or coexistence with Israel and declared that recognition of Israel in exchange for the repatriation of the Palestinian Arabs would be a deviation from Arab unanimity on the Palestine cause and from the Charter of the Arab League. The representatives also reaffirmed Arab support for previous Arab summit resolutions on the Palestine question, including a unified Arab command, on the “Palestine Liberation Organization,” and on Arab schemes for diverting the headwaters of the Jordan River. The resolution, however, did not provide for the expulsion of Tunisia from the Arab League and its exclusion from all future Arab summit meetings, demands made by Ahmed Shukairy, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mr. Shukairy walked out of the meeting on April 29, but he was later persuaded to return.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , Fall 1965 , pp. 1058
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1965

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References

1 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 05 15–22, 1965 (Vol. 15), p. 20745Google Scholar. For a summary of previous activities of the Arab League, see International Organization, Autumn 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 4), p. 873Google Scholar.

2 The New York Times, May 29, 1965, p. 65; and May 31, 1965, p. 3.

3 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 10–17, 1965 (Vol. 15), p. 20851Google Scholar.