Rijul Asri AP Comparative Government and Politics

 Voluntary association among Arab nations  Arab – person who speaks Arabic  Muslim – practitioner of Islam

 Highest body of LAS  Consists of representatives from each member state  Each state gets one vote, regardless of size  Council decisions binding only for states that voted for them  Important for maintenance of sovereignty

 Administrative and executive branches  Deals with daily functions of LAS  Headed by the Secretary General  Elected by the council every 5 years

 8 May 1942 – Arab Unity Consultations Phase  Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen  7 October 1944 – Alexandria Protocol  Precursor to LAS Charter

 22 March 1945  Charter signed in Cairo  Cairo acted as headquarters until 1979  Headquarters, 1979 – 1990 – Tunis, Tunisia  Original 6 members:  Egypt  Lebanon  Iraq  Jordan  Syria  Saudi Arabia

 Most important document of organization  20 Articles  Article 1 – Limits membership to Arab states  Enumerates/organizes purposes of LAS  Defines major bodies  3 Annexes  Annex 1 – Defines Palestine as its own state

 1954 –The Arab Citizen  1957 – Agreement on Economic Unity among Member States  1960 – Agreement on the Coordination of Oil Policy  1970 – Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization

 1979 – Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel  Suspended from LAS  Headquarters moved to Tunis  1994 – Arab Charter for Human Rights  2005 – L’Institut Superieure Arabe de Traduction (ISAT)

 To forge/strengthen member-member relations  To guard sovereignty of members  To represent interests of members  To further interests of Arab World as a whole  Pan-Arabism – concept of unity among the entire Arab World

 Council decisions are non-binding  Maintains state sovereignty  Intra-organization trade  Agreement of Economic Unity among Member States  Modernization of technology  ALECSO  General Social Health  ALECSO  “The Arab Citizen”

 Universal standards  Impinges upon state sovereignty  International trade  Agreement on the Coordination of Oil Policy  Power of Egypt  Pan-Arabism v. Nationalism

 Majority ethnicity – Persian  Sources of conflict:  Oil  Religion Sunni, Wahhabism v. Shi’ite  Nuclear Policy

 Conflicts:  1945 – LAS boycott of Jewish businesses  1948 – Arab-Israeli War  1967 – Six Days War  LAS boycott of Israel  1979 – Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel  Palestine – member of LAS

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