1978 Arab League summit

The 1978 Arab League summit was meeting held between Arab leaders on November 2 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. The conference resolved that the agreements signed by the Egyptian Government at Camp David harmed the rights of the Palestinian people. The Egyptian government was urged not to ratify the agreements and to align itself with the Arab League. Most importantly, the League froze its relations with the Government of Egypt.^[1] On March 31, 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 May 23, 1989^[4] and the headquarters, which never saw completed construction in Tunis,^[5] return to Cairo on March 12, 1990.^[5]

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