The Arab League is a regional organization that was founded on March 22, 1945. The league’s function is to promote political cooperation among its member states, and to deal with disputes or any breaches of peace in the region. The league’s official name is the League of Arab States. The number of the founding members of the league are 22, namely: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

Furthermore, the activities of the League are unknown and usually misunderstood by the outside world, due to the organization has been eager to secure publicity for it’s activities. It is said that one of the main reasons that the governments of the Arab states can’t unite, is due to the imbalance of wealth, population and military power in the region. Furthermore, since the 1980s the league has failed to show any kind of unity.

The task of the council is to decide what means are necessary to guarantee peace & security, and to regulate co-operations in social & economic relations. Each member has a single chair for in the council, regardless of the number of representatives.