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International parliament
Arab Parliament
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Formed
| December 27, 2002
(
2002-12-27
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Headquarters
| Tahrir Square
,
Cairo
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Motto
| For the promotion of democracy and stable development
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Parliamentary Union executive
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Website
| www
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.org
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Arab League members
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The
Arab Parliament
is the legislative body of the
Arab League
. At the 19th Arab League Summit in
Amman
, the
Arab states
agreed to create an Arab Parliament, and came up with a resolution to give
Amr Moussa
the Secretary General of the Arab League the power to start and create the Parliament. In 2004, in the ordinary Arab League Summit in
Algiers
was the official date where all Arab League Members agreed to send their representative to the temporary Parliament sessions that took place in the
headquarters of the Arab League
in
Cairo
,
Egypt
, with each member state sending four members, until the Parliament is reassigned permanently to its under-construction office in
Damascus
.
The headquarters was in
Damascus
until on May 22, 2012, the sessions were suspended and transferred to Cairo. The Arab League is now preparing to move the headquarters of the parliament to
Baghdad
.
Adel Al Asoomi
(of
Bahrain
) is the current Speaker of the Parliament.
List of Members of the Parliament
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Observers
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