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Arab League: Egypt Sunday
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The headquarters of the Arab League are in Cairo, Egypt. Its supreme organ is the council, where all member states are represented, and they each have 1 one, independent of their respective number of inhabitants. Decisions in the council are binding only for those countries voting in favour of it. The council meets twice a year, in March and September, where the heads of state participate. The council can meet for special sessions if 2 or more member states requests it.
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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa talks during a press conference following an Arab foreign ministers meeting at the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt, late Sunday, March. 4, 2007. Moussa hinted that Arab governments may attempt to take the Iraqi conflict back to the U.N. Security Council if current efforts to end the crisis fail.
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The Arab League, which had sponsored talks in Egypt among the Somali Warlords over several months in 1997, has indicated that its members will fund urgent water projects in Somalia immediately following establishment of the new Government in Mogadishu. The Conference to select the ruling executives and to ratify the new Government is scheduled to begin March 31. First priority declared by the Arab League is the production of clean drinking water for people and livestock and irrigation for crop production through the rehabilitation of hundreds of water wells destroyed during the civil strife of recent years. A technical water analysis prepared by Somali hydrologists and engineers estimates the costs of the early phases of the project to total $50 million U.S.
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The Arab League is rich in resources, with enormous oil and natural gas resources; it ... has great fertile lands in South of the Sudan, usually referred to as the food basket of the Arab World. The region's instability has not affected its tourism industry, that is considered the fastest growing industry in the region, with Egypt, UAE, Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan leading the way. Another industry that is growing steadily in the Arab League is telecommunications. Within less than a decade, local companies such as Orascom and Etisalat have managed to compete internationally.
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In Beirut the Arab League opened a summit of its 22 member states. Egypt's Pres. Mubarek did not attend. It dissolved into chaos when Palestinian delegates stalked out when Arafat was not given a prominent place for a live broadcast. Arafat endorsed the peace initiative of Prince Abdullah.
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Arab economic organization established in June 1957 by a resolution of the Arab Economic Council of the Arab League. Its first meeting was held in 1964. Members include Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Somalia, The Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
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