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Arab League

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Council of the Arab League met in Cairo beginning December II, 1954, and adopted several recommendations proposed by the League's Political Committee which had finished its session on December 9. The Council approved of the participation of the League members in the forthcoming conference of Asian and African countries in Bandung, Indonesia, approved the appointment of Faha Hussein (Egypt) as chairman of the Arab League Cultural Committee, decided that Jordan's home guard should be strengthened, and agreed that Syria should lodge with the United Nations Security Council, on behalf of Jordan, a complaint against Israel diversion of the waters of the Jordan River. The 23d regular session of the Council opened in Cairo on March 27,1955.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 1955 , pp. 433 - 434
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1955

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References

1 Middle East Journal, IX, p. 167; Middle Eastern Affairs, VI, p. 29. Forinformation on previous Council sessions, see International Organization, IX, p. 182.

2 Middle Eastern Affairs, VI, p. 136.

3 Ibid., p. 60; Middle East Journal, IX, p. 167.

4 Middle Eastern Affairs, VI, p. 29.

5 For information on the conclusion of the pact, see International Organization, IX, p. 303–304; for further information, see this issue, p. 445.

6 The above summary of the activities following the announcement of the impending Turkish-Iraqi, pact is based on the following sources: Middle Eastern Affairs, VI, p. 29, 60–61, 136Google Scholar; Middle East Journal, IX, p. 167; Chronology of International Events and Documents, XI, p. 74, 78, 112, 140, 209; New York Times, January 25, 1955; ibid., February 4, 1955; ibid., February 5, 1955; ibid., February 7, 1955; ibid., March 27, 1955; The Times (London), January 28, 1955; ibid., February 7, 1955; ibid., March 7, 1955.