According to the drat final declaration of the Arab summit, which ended on 28 March, Arab states will join the new joint military force on a voluntary, optional base.
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The joint force is set to intervene military to face eventual challenges threatening the security and safety of any member state at the official request of its authorities.
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Diplomatic sources close to the summit stressed that Iraq expressed strong opposition to this resolution and renewed its rejection of any military intervention of any state in the affairs of any other country.
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Iraq has been invaded and militarily occupied by the US-led military coalition for over a decade.
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The establishment of the new Arab joint military force was approved by Sharm El-Sheikh Arab summit upon the Egyptian proposal, which Cairo launched few weeks ago.
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The ongoing Saudi-led coalition that has launched military attacks against Houthi forces in Yemen provided a further push to the creation of the Arab NATO.
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The summit called on Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to hold a conference in Saudi Arabia under the umbrella of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
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King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia said that the painful reality experienced by a number of Arab countries from terrorism and internal conflicts and bloodshed, has been the inevitable result of the alliance between terrorism and sectarian led regional powers “blatant interventions” in the Arab region to destabilize the security and stability in some Arab countries.
The Saud king’s statement was implicitly meant to the largely believed intervention of Qatar and Turkey, both allied of radical islamists in the region.
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Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt interrupted their diplomatic ties with Qatar a year ago, as result of what they considered as a “flagrant interference” in Arab states –mainly Egypt and Libya– through its strong support to the extremist wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and its allied militia.
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The summit called as well on Arab countries to support the budget of the Palestine for a year starting from the first April. Arab leaders also supported the Palestinian Central Council resolutions calling for a review of political, economic and security relations with Israel, to respect the signed agreements and resolutions of international legitimacy.
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On Libya, the Arab summit called on member countries to provide full political and material support to the legitimate government in Libya, including supporting the Libyan national army.
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The Arab leaders demanded the Security Council to quickly lift the ban on arms imports to the legitimate Libyan government. They also stressed their support to the Libyan government in its efforts to control the borders with neighboring countries. Qatar expressed full reservation regarding this resolution.
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The summit also stressed the need for the UN Security Council to take full responsibilities towards dealing with the course of the Syrian crisis, and called for the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States to continue contacts with the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the establishment of a common plan of action to ensure the achievement of a political solution to the Syrian conflicts, according to the Geneva Conference 1.
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As well, the Arab leaders renewed their emphasis on the full, absolute sovereignty of the United Arab Emirates over the three Gulf islands claimed by Iran, calling on the Iranian government to enter into direct negotiations with the United Arab Emirates or recourse to the International Court of Justice to find a peaceful solution to the issue of the islands.
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The League of Arab States was created in Cairo on 22 March 1945 by six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan (renamed Jordan in 1949), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Yemen joined as a member on 5 May 1945.
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Currently, the League has 22 members, although Syria’s participation has been suspended since November 2011, as a consequence of Damascus government repression during the ongoing uprising and civil war.
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*Map: Arab countries | Author: Danalm000 | Wikimedia Commons
2015 Human Wrongs Watch
that is good for stability but if it is voluntary, there is no hope in actually doing stuff as a unified force
The wests plan is to make it easyer and faster for Muslims to kill each other yet so few Muslims can see it.
I think the Saudi Royals are in bed with the jews and if they dropped their pants then all the men would be missing little bits that were cut off at birth.
You can judge the USA by the company it keeps and who its selling/giving weapon too regardless of what the media tried to spin it as and no one in hte world treats femails as bad as “The Kingdom” whgo puts them i jail so that they can be raped for free by the rich.