The 2008 Arab League summit was held in
Damascus
Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Kno ...
on March 29, 2008. The summit was marred by inter-Arab differences, mainly over the
political deadlock in Lebanon, with relations between Syria and the Saudi-Egypt coalition reaching an all-time low.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...
and
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
snubbed the summit by sending low-level representatives.
Al Jazeera English – Middle East – Saudi king snubs Damascus summit
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
's majority government boycotted the summit
References
External links
Official Website of the Summit (Arabic)
2008 Arab League summit
2008 in Syria
Events in Damascus
Diplomatic conferences in Syria
21st-century diplomatic conferences
2008 in international relations
2008 conferences
21st century in Damascus
March 2008 in Syria
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