### Issues at Arab League summits

Issues at Arab League summits
No.................Date and location.....................Resolutions, outcomes
1st.............January 1964, Cairo.................Agreed to oppose "the robbery of the

waters of Jordan by Israel."
2nd.....September 1964, Alexandria........Supported the establishment of the

Palestine Liberation Organization

(PLO) in its effort to liberate Palestine

from the Zionists.
3rd.....September 1965, Casablanca......Opposed "intra-Arab hostile propaganda."
4th....29 August-1 September 1967, Khartoum......Held post-1967 Arab-Israeli

War, which ended with crushing Israeli

victory; declared three "no's": "no

negotiation with Israel, no treaty, no

recognition of Israel."
5th......December 1969, Rabat............Called for the mobilization of

member countries against Israel.
6th.......November 1973, Algiers........Held in the wake of the 1973

Arab-Israeli War, it set strict

guidelines for dialogue with Israel.
7th.....30 October-2 November 1974, Rabat.......Declared the PLO to

be "the sole and legitimate

representative of the Palestinian

people," who had "the right to

establish the independent state

of Palestine on any liberated territory."
8th......October 1976, Cairo............Approved the establishment of

a peacekeeping force (Arab Deterrent

Force) for the Lebanese Civil War.
9th......November 1978, Baghdad......Condemned the Camp David

Peace Accords between Egypt and

Israel, and threatened Egypt

with sanctions, including the

suspension of its membership if Egypt

signed a treaty with Israel.
10th......November 1979, Tunis......Held in the wake of Israel's invasion

of Lebanon in 1978, it discussed Israel's

occupation of southern Lebanon.
11th.....\November 1980, Amman.....Formulated a strategy for

economic development among League

members until 2000.
12th.....November 1981/September 1982, Fez......Meeting was suspended

due to resistance to a peace plan drafted

by Saudi crown prince Fahd, which implied

de facto recognition of the Jewish state.

In September 1982 at Fez, the meeting

reconvened to adopt a modified version

of the Fahd Plan, called the Fez Plan.
13th......August 1985, Casablanca......Failed to back a PLO-Jordanian

agreement that envisaged talks with

Israel about Palestinian rights. Summit

boycotted by five member states.
14th......November 1987, Amman.....Supported UN Security Council

Resolution 598 regarding cease-fire

in the Iran-Iraq War. Also declared

that individual member states could

decide to resume diplomatic ties with

Egypt.
15th......June 1988, Casablanca......Decided to financially support the

PLO in sustaining the Intifada in the

occupied territories.
16th......May 1989, Casablanca........Readmitted Egypt into Arab League,

and set up Tripartite Committee to secure

a cease-fire in the Lebanese Civil War

and re-establish a constitutional

government in Lebanon.
17th......May 1990, Baghdad.....Denounced recent increase of Soviet

Jewish immigration to Israel.
18th.....August 1990, Cairo.......12 out of 20 members present

condemned Iraq for invading and

annexing Kuwait. Agreed to deploy

troops to assist Saudi and other Gulf

states' armed forces.
19th.....June 1995, Cairo..........Held after a hiatus of five years.

Iraq not invited.
20th.....October 2000, Cairo.....Set up funds to help the Palestinians'

Second Intifada against the Israeli

occupation, and called on its members

to freeze their relations with Israel.

Iraq was invited.
21st......March 2001, Amman......Held after the election of Ariel Sharon

as Israel's prime minister, it appointed

Egypt's Amr Mousa as the Arab League's

new secretary-general.
22nd......March 2002, Beirut......Adopted the Saudi Peace Plan of Crown

Prince Abdullah, which offered Israel total

peace in exchange for total Israeli withdrawal

from Arab territories conquered in the 1967

war. Opposed the use of force against Iraq.
23rd.....March 2003, Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt.....Agreed not to participate

in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, but allowed

the United States to use military bases in

some of their countries.

The league experienced significant difficulties in the collection of member-state dues in the aftermath of the Gulf Crisis (1990 - 1991) and subsequently. Its 1991 budget was over $27 million, with the largest share being assessed to Saudi Arabia (14%), Kuwait (14%), Libya (12%), Iraq (10%), Egypt (8.5%), Algeria (8%), the United Arab Emi-rates (6.5%), and Morocco (5%). Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, and Yemen had reservations concerning their share of the league budget. The 1999 budget was set at $26.5 million, but when Amr Moussa took office in 2001, it was estimated at $50 million. Also, late dues reportedly had reached $100 million, with some states more than a decade in arrears. According to Article 15 of the league's bylaws, approved in 1973, members can be denied voting rights if their delinquent dues total more than their total assessment of the current year and the two preceding years.