Arab League–European Union relations
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The Arab League and European Union have shared relations since the EU's development into a more political power rather than an economical one, in the 19th summit of the Arab League in Saudi Arabia, Javier Solana attended the summit, giving the EU's full support to the Arab League's Peace Initiative of 2002. Following this summit, he had several meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa.
In the summit, he addressed the Arab Leaders:
- "once again we find ourselves together, the European Union and the Arab League, once again we have an opportunity to re-affirm our joint commitment to the values of civilisation that we share, more than ever Europeans and Arabs have to face common challenges, I am confident that we will find new ways to improve our cooperation"
History
The Arab League was created decades before the Creation of the European Union. Yet the European states have played a big role in the organization. Starting with its launch, which was a British supported Idea, to increase Arab-Nationalism against the Ottomans in the first world war. The European States then suffered with what was called the Independent movements that raged the Arab world. This occurred especially in the French Colonized Algeria, Syria, Lebanon and Morocco, and the British Colonized Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan. Pan-Arabism was at its Peak under Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser during the Suez Canal Crisis. Relations between the two regions started to calm down after Nasser's Death. By 1973 The Arab-European relations were based on oil in exchange of Political support.
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