2005 Arab League Summit

Host country|  Algeria
Date| 22–23 March 2005
Venue(s)| Palais des Nations
Cities| Algiers
Participants| 22 countries
Chair| Abdelaziz Bouteflika
Follows| 2004 Arab League Summit
Precedes| 2006 Arab League summit

The 2005 Arab League summit, officially 17th Ordinary Session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level, was a regular summit that was held in Algiers, Algeria in March 2005.[1][2][3]

The city hosted the summit for the third time, following 1973 and 1988. Prior to the conference, the foreign ministers met to agree on proposals that will be presented to the Leaders for approval. The Palestinian issue, the unrest in Lebanon and Iraq, Egypt's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council, and political reform in the member nations were all topics of discussion at the summit.[4][5]

## Participating leaders

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Yemen, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, and Lebanon's leaders did not attend the Summit due to work commitments.[4][6]

* Arab League – Secretary-General Amr Moussa
* Algeria – President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (host)
* Bahrain – Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa
* Egypt – President Hosni Mubarak
* Iraq – President (interim) Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer
* Jordan – Prime Minister Faisal Al-Fayez
* Kuwait – Crown Prince Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
* Lebanon – Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud
* Libya – Leader Muammar Gaddafi
* Mauritania – President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya
* Morocco – King Mohammed VI
* Oman – Deputy Prime Minister Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said
* Palestine – President Mahmoud Abbas[7]
* Qatar – Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
* Saudi Arabia – Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
* Sudan – President Omar al-Bashir
* Syria – President Bashar al-Assad
* Tunisia – President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
* United Arab Emirates – Ruler of Fujairah Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi
* Yemen – Vice-president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi

## References

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1. ^ "14 ملكا ورئيس دولة يشاركون في قمة الجزائر العربية". www.aljazeera.net.
2. ^ "Le Sommet d'Alger a clos ses travaux hier en réactivant son projet de règlement de 2002 : Israël rejette l'offre de paix arabe". Le Matin.ma (in French). 2005-03-23. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
3. ^ "La Déclaration d'Alger". L'Obs (in French). 2005-03-23. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
4. ^ a b "بدء وصول القادة العرب لحضور قمة الجزائر". www.aljazeera.net.
5. ^ "Ligue arabe : le sommet d'Alger réactive le plan de paix avec Israël". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2005-03-22. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
6. ^ "RFI - Ligue arabe - Un sommet censé relancer la paix avec Israël". www1.rfi.fr. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
7. ^ "الرئيس يلتقي في الجزائر على هامش القمة العربية عدداً من الرؤساء العرب". Wafa (in Arabic). 10 March 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2022.

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Arab League summits

Pre-1964|

* 1946 Inshas
* 1956 Beirut

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 City
* 2015 Sharm El-Sheikh
* 2016 Nouakchott
* 2017 Amman
* 2018 Dhahran
* 2019 Tunis

2020-2039|

* 2022 Algiers
* 2023 Jeddah
* 2023 Riyadh
* 2024 Bahrain
* 2025 Iraq

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