Arab League summit: who was there?


Issue 944 - 12 Apr 2013 | 2 minute read

At the 2012 Arab League summit, held on 29 March in Baghdad, only 10 out of 22 member states sent their heads of state. Kuwait was the only Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) state to send its ruler, with Qatar and Saudi Arabia both fielding low-level delegations. The turnout for Qatar’s 2013 summit, held on 26 March in Doha, was more impressive. With the Syrian chair filled by the opposition, the rest of the room held 14 heads of state; the remaining countries almost all sent high-level delegations.

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