The Sirt summit

2010 Arab League summit

The Arab League 22nd Summit was held in Sirte, in Libya on the 27th of March 2010.Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi spoke at the summit, stressing that Israel should return the Golan Heights to Syria....

 announced that the next Arab League

Arab League

The Arab League , officially called the League of Arab States , is a regional organisation of Arab states in North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia . It was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan , Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Yemen joined as a...

 summit will be held in Baghdad

Baghdad

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, and will be considered the first Arab League summit in Baghdad in almost 20 years, ever since the 1990 Gulf war

Gulf War

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 sparked, the Arab League summit is expected to discuss the Arab Union

Arab Union

The term Arab Union was first used when the British promised Arabs a united independent Arab state; after that failed to happen due to the Sykes–Picot Agreement, Arabs since have called for an Arab Union, with Gamal Abdel Nasser trying several Arab Federations, alongside with other Arab states,...

, on the top of the Baghdad summit's Agends.

The summit has been delayed until the end of May, due to regional unrest across the Arab world.