Syrian-Palestinian Congress
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The Syrian-Palestinian Congress, also known as the Syria-Palestine Congress or the Syro-Palestinian Congress was an organisation founded in June 1921 in Geneva by a group of Syrian and Palestinian exiles. The main aim of the congress was to try to influence the terms of the proposed League of Nations mandate
League of Nations mandate
A League of Nations mandate was a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I, or the legal instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the territory on behalf of the League...

 over the region. It was one of a number of congresses held by Arab nationists following the Arab Congress of 1913
Arab Congress of 1913
The Arab Congress of 1913 met in a hall of the French Geographical Society at 184 Boulevard Saint-Germain from June 18–23 in Paris to discuss reforms to grant Arabs more autonomy under the Ottoman Empire...

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The formation of the congress followed the July 1919 "Pan-Syrian" Syrian National Congress
Syrian National Congress
The Syrian National Congress was convened in July 1919 in Damascus, Syria to prepare for the King-Crane Commission of inquiry on the future of Greater Syria after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The congress was attended by representative from all parts of Syria. The participants showed...

. The addition of Palestine to the name followed the Franco-British boundary agreement
Franco-British Boundary Agreement (1920)
The Franco-British Boundary Agreement of 1920, properly called the Franco-British Convention on Certain Points Connected with the Mandates for Syria and the Lebanon, Palestine and Mesopotamia, was an agreement signed between the British and French governments in Paris, on 23 December 1920...

 of December 1920 which formally defined the territory of Palestine out of the region viewed by the Pan-Syrian nationalists as Greater Syria
Greater Syria
Greater Syria , also known simply as Syria, is a term that denotes a region in the Near East bordering the Eastern Mediterranean Sea or the Levant....

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On 21 September, after twenty-six days of discussion, the joint congress issued a public statement to the League of Nations
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...

 demanding, among other things, recognition of the "independence and national rule (al-Sultan al-Qawmi) of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine"

Participants

  • Michel Lotfallah (President of the Syro-Palestinian Congress)
  • Muhammad Rashid Rida (Vice President)
  • Haj Toufic Hammad (Vice President)
  • Emir Shakib Arslan
    Shakib Arslan
    Shakib Arslan was a Druze prince from Lebanon who was known as because in addition to being a politician, he was also an influential writer, poet and historian, among other things. Influenced by the ideas of al-Afghani and Muhammad Abduh, Arslan became a strong supporter of the Pan-Islamic...

     (Secretary General)
  • Toufic El-Yazigi (Assistant Secretary General)
  • Wahba El-Issa
  • Riad El-Solh
  • Salah Ezzeddine
  • Shibli El-Jamal
  • Ehsan El-Jabri
  • George Youssef Salem
  • Taan Al-Imad
  • Amin Bey Al-Tamimi
  • Najib Choucair
  • Toufic Fayed
  • Suleiman Kanaan
  • Shukri al-Quwatli
  • Abd al-Rahman Shabbandar

External references

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