1988 Arab League summit

Arab League summit
Host country	Algeria
Date	June 1988 (1988-06)
Cities	Algiers

The 1988 Arab League summit was held in June in Algiers as the seventeenth Arab League Summit. The focus of the conference was the First Intifada, an uprising by the Palestinians against Israeli occupation and the consequent upswing in Israeli-Palestinian violence. The Arab states resolved to support the intifada financially.^[1]

References

↑ Sela, Avraham. "Arab Summit Conferences." The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East. Ed. Sela. New York: Continuum, 2002. pp. 158-160

Arab League summits

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

Italics indicate extraordinary meetings.