International organisation

League of Arab States

Founded in Cairo in March 1945, months before the UN itself, and the body through which the Arab states coordinate.

Founded

1945-03-22

Headquarters

Headquarters of the Arab League

Member states

21 resolved, 22 published by the organisation

Official site

http://www.leagueofarabstates.net/

The two counts differ. League of Arab States publishes 22 members; 21 resolved against the 193 states this site has checked. Sometimes that is a disagreement about what counts as a member state — a non-UN state, a territory, a suspended member — and sometimes the compiled source lacks a current statement for a real one. Either way the gap is shown rather than smoothed over, because a table that quietly shows one number cannot be checked against the other.

The League's 22 members include Palestine, which is not a UN member state and does not appear in the table below.

Member states

Ordered by accession. A state with no recorded date is listed last rather than given one.

A joining date is the one the source records, which may be the day a treaty was signed or the day it took effect. States that joined together can therefore differ by months here.

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