1978 Arab League summit

Arab League summit
Arab League summit
Host country	Iraq
Date	2 November 1978
Cities	Baghdad

The 1978 Arab League summit was meeting held between Arab leaders on 2 November in Baghdad as the 9th Arab League Summit. The summit came in the aftermath of the Egypt's Anwar Sadat's unilateral peace treaty with Israel.^[1] On 31 March 1979, five days after the ratification of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty,^[2] Arab leaders again convened in Baghdad in the absence of Egypt and decided to expel it from the Arab League.^[2] Consequently, the secretariat of the League was moved out of its Cairo headquarters to Tunis.^[2] This decision was slowly reversed in the 1980s after president Hosni Mubarak ascended to power. Egypt, which regained strong influence in the region as rival nation Syria was suffering setbacks during the Lebanon Civil War,^[3] returned to the Arab League on 23 May 1989^[4] and the headquarters, which never saw completed construction in Tunis,^[5] return to Cairo on 12 March 1990.^[5]

References[]

^ "Arab League Summit Conferences, 1964–2000". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Tucker, Spencer C.; Roberts, Priscilla (12 May 2008). The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851098422.
^ Drysdale, Alasdair; Hinnebusch, Raymond A. (1 January 1991). Syria and the Middle East Peace Process. Council on Foreign Relations. ISBN 9780876091050.
^ "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b Times, Alan Cowell, Special To The New York (12 March 1990). "Arab League Headquarters to Return to Cairo". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

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[1] "Arab League Summit Conferences, 1964–2000". www.washingtoninstitute.org. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

[:1-2] Tucker, Spencer C.; Roberts, Priscilla (12 May 2008). The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851098422.

[3] Drysdale, Alasdair; Hinnebusch, Raymond A. (1 January 1991). Syria and the Middle East Peace Process. Council on Foreign Relations. ISBN 9780876091050.

[4] "Lodi News-Sentinel - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

[:0-5] Times, Alan Cowell, Special To The New York (12 March 1990). "Arab League Headquarters to Return to Cairo". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 May 2016.

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v t Arab League summits
Pre-1964	1946 1956
1964–1979	1964 Cairo / Alexandria 1965 Casablanca 1967 Khartoum 1969 1970 Cairo 1973 1974 Rabat 1976 Riyadh / Cairo 1978 Baghdad 1979
1980–1999	1980 1982 1985 1987 Amman 1988 Algiers 1989 1990 / 1996
2000–2019	2000 2001 2002 Beirut 2003 2004 2005 2006 Khartoum 2007 Riyadh 2008 Damascus 2009 Doha 2010 Sirte 2012 Baghdad 2013 Doha 2014 2015 2016 Nouakchott 2017 Amman 2018 Dhahran 2019
Italics indicate extraordinary meetings.