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Arab League summit
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Host country
| Egypt
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Date
| 11 September 1964
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Cities
| Alexandria
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The
1964 Arab League summit in Alexandria
was held on 11 September 1964
[1]
in
Montaza Palace
,
Alexandria
as the second
Arab League Summit
. The focus of the conference was to implement the plans discussed at the
first Arab League summit
held in January of that year. The summit was notable for being a key step in the buildup to the
Six-Day War
in 1967 and separately for "approving the establishment of the
Palestine Liberation Organization
."
[2]
Background
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The
1964 Arab League summit (Cairo)
was against the background of the 1961 breakup of the
United Arab Republic
of
Egypt
and
Syria
, the continued control of the
Gaza Strip
by
Egypt
and the
West Bank
by
Jordan
following the
1948 Arab?Israeli War
and the recent tensions in the region driven by Israel's proposed
diversion of water
from
Lake Tiberias
.
[3]
The January 1964 summit in Cairo was convened following a statement by
Egyptian president
Gamal Abdel Nasser
on 23 December 1963:
"In order to confront Israel, which challenged us last week when
its chief-of-staff
stood up and said "we shall divert the water against the will of the Arabs and the Arabs can do what they want", a meeting between Arab
kings
and
Heads of State
must take place as soon as possible, regardless of the conflicts and differences between them. Those with whom we are in conflict, we are prepared to meet; those with whom we have a quarrel, we are ready, for the sake of Palestine, to sit with."
[4]
Resolutions
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The council made a number of resolutions, principally relating to
Palestine
and
Arab unity
. These resolutions included statements that the Council:
[5]
- Was unanimous in defining national objectives for the liberation of
Palestine
from
Zionist
colonialism and in committing itself to a plan for joint Arab action both in the present stage for which plans have been made, and in the following stage.
- Stressed the necessity of utilizing all Arab potentialities, and the mobilization of their resources and capabilities, in order to counter the challenge of colonialism and
Zionism
as well as
Israel
’s continued aggressive policies and its insistence on denying the rights of the Arabs of Palestine to their homeland.
- Adopted resolutions for the implementation of Arab plans, especially in the technical and military fields, including embarking on immediate work on projects for the exploitation of the waters of the River Jordan and its tributaries.
- Welcomed the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization to consolidate the
Palestine
Entity, and as a vanguard for the collective Arab struggle for the liberation of Palestine. It approved the Organization's decision to establish a
Palestinian Liberation Army
and defined the commitments of the member States to assist it in its work.
- Expressed its appreciation for the support given by foreign countries to Arab causes in general and the Palestine cause in particular.
- Resolved to combat
British imperialism
in the
Arab Peninsula
and to provide assistance to the liberation movement in the
Occupied South
and
Oman
.
- Devoted attention to consolidating Arab friendly relations with the emirates of the
Persian Gulf
area to ensure the indivisible Arab freedom and to realize common interests.
- Discussed means of consolidating unified Arab political, defence, economic and social action within the framework of the Arab League.
- Placed special emphasis on the promotion of Arab economic co-operation and the implementation of all economic agreements since economic unity is the basic foundation on which Arab power and progress rests and the strongest bastion against foreign challenge. This, in addition to the fact that such unity is the primary objective of contemporary international groupings.
- Stressed the necessity of stepping up co-operation and increasing the economic support to the States of the Arab
Maghreb
.
- Agreed to form a joint Arab Council to undertake nuclear research for peaceful uses and to set up an Arab court of justice.
Participants
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The participants in the meeting were recorded in a letter to the United Nations as follows:
[5]
A number of key Arab states had not yet achieved independence from
Britain
in 1964, and therefore their leaders did not participate in the conference:
References
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- ^
"Arab League Summit Conferences, 1964?2000"
.
www.washingtoninstitute.org
. Retrieved
2017-01-29
.
- ^
Sela, Avraham
. "Arab Summit Conferences."
The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East
. Ed. Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 158-160
- ^
Hof 2000: 156
- ^
Kalawoun, Nasser Mounif (2000).
The struggle for Lebanon: a modern history of Lebanese-Egyptian relations
. London: I. B. Tauris and Company. p. 102.
ISBN
1-86064-423-6
.
- ^
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b
Unispal, DOCUMENT S/6003*, Letter dated 6 October 1964 from the representatives of Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Republic and Yemen, addressed to the President of the Security Council
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