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1978 Arab League summit

Host country	Iraq
Date	2–5 November 1978
Cities	Baghdad
Follows	1976 Arab League summit

The 1978 Arab League summit was meeting held between Arab leaders between 2–5 November in Baghdad as the 9th Arab League Summit. The summit came in the aftermath of Egypt's Anwar Sadat's unilateral peace treaty with Israel. On 31 March 1979, five days after the ratification of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty, Arab leaders again convened in Baghdad in the absence of Egypt and decided to expel it from the Arab League. Consequently, the secretariat of the League was moved out of its Cairo headquarters to Tunis. This decision was slowly reversed in the 1980s after president Hosni Mubarak ascended to power. Egypt, which regained strong influence in the region as rival nation Syria was suffering setbacks during the Lebanon Civil War, returned to the Arab League on 23 May 1989 and the headquarters, which never saw completed construction in Tunis, return to Cairo on 12 March 1990.

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v t e 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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