This year’s Arab League summit, held in Tunisia, comes against a grim backdrop of ongoing wars in Syria and Yemen, rival authorities in Libya and a lingering boycott of Qatar by four fellow League members. Calling the meeting “the summit of resolve and solidarity,” Host-country Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi decried “regional and international interventions” in Arab affairs. The Arab leaders meeting in Tunisia condemned those policies but did not announce any further action. In Syria, small protests against Trump’s Golan move were held and state media criticized the Arab summit. The Arab League had been expected to consider readmitting Syria, but there was no reference to the subject in the final statement.

Source: National Post March 31, 2019 08:42 UTC