Summary
The resolutions of the Arab summit conference of 1 September 1967, affirming the unity of Arab ranks and the Arab Solidarity Charter signed at the third Arab summit conference in Casablanca, agreeing to consolidate all efforts to eliminate the effects of the aggression on the basis that the occupied lands are Arab lands, and to unite political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to ensure the withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands occupied since the aggression of June 5, within the principles of no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country; the conference decided to resume oil pumping as a positive Arab weapon, approved Kuwait’s plan for an Arab Economic and Social Development Fund, agreed measures to strengthen military preparation, and decided to expedite the elimination of foreign bases in the Arab States (The Khartoum Resolutions (1 September 1967), lines 1-82).
What the file is
The Avalon Project reproduction headed “The Khartoum Resolutions; September 1, 1967”. Seven numbered paragraphs, about 597 words; 82 lines in the text copy including the Avalon navigation menus at the head and the Lillian Goldman Law Library footer (copyright 2008, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511) at the tail. The text is clean and legible throughout. The file gives no attendance list, signatories, venue address or vote figures, and names no state except Kuwait (paragraph 5) and, in the principles, Israel.
Section by section
- Paragraph 1, unity. The conference affirmed the unity of Arab ranks, the unity of joint action, coordination and the elimination of all differences; the Kings, Presidents and representatives of the other Arab Heads of State affirmed their countries’ stand by and implementation of the Arab Solidarity Charter signed at the third Arab summit conference in Casablanca.
- Paragraph 2, the occupied lands. Agreement to consolidate all efforts to eliminate the effects of the aggression “on the basis that the occupied lands are Arab lands and that the burden of regaining these lands falls on all the Arab States”.
- Paragraph 3, political efforts and the three principles. The Arab Heads of State agreed to unite their political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to eliminate the effects of the aggression and ensure withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands occupied since the aggression of June 5, “within the framework of the main principles by which the Arab States abide, namely, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country”.
- Paragraph 4, oil. The Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil had recommended using suspension of oil pumping as a weapon; after thorough study the summit concluded oil pumping can itself be used as a positive weapon, oil being an Arab resource to strengthen the economies of the States directly affected so they can stand firm, and therefore decided to resume the pumping of oil; the oil-producing States had in fact participated in enabling the affected States to stand firm against economic pressure.
- Paragraph 5, development fund. Approval of the plan proposed by Kuwait to set up an Arab Economic and Social Development Fund, on the recommendation of the Baghdad conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil.
- Paragraph 6, military preparation. Agreement on the need to adopt the necessary measures to strengthen military preparation to face all eventualities.
- Paragraph 7, foreign bases. The conference decided to expedite the elimination of foreign bases in the Arab States.
Key passages
- “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country” (paragraph 3).
- “the occupied lands are Arab lands and that the burden of regaining these lands falls on all the Arab States” (paragraph 2).
Evidence the work relies on
A conference communiqué, not an evidentiary work. It relies on instruments it names without reproducing: the Arab Solidarity Charter signed at the third Arab summit conference in Casablanca, the recommendation of the conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil on oil suspension, and the Baghdad conference’s recommendation underlying Kuwait’s fund plan.
Analysis
The text pairs a diplomatic track (united political efforts to secure withdrawal) with the three negative principles and a Palestinian-rights insistence in the same paragraph, and pairs that posture with material measures — resumed oil pumping as a positive weapon, a development fund for the affected States, military preparation and removal of foreign bases. Its limits are those of a communiqué: it does not define “the effects of the aggression”, name the occupied lands, or record dissent, attendance or implementation machinery beyond the fund’s approval in principle.
People, organizations, places and events
Arab League, Israel, Khartoum Resolutions
Concepts
How it relates to other sources
The summit’s principles are the stance the Arab League page already records in summary from a secondary source — member states agreeing in 1967, under popular pressure, to refuse recognition, negotiation or peace; this primary text states the principles themselves and adds the withdrawal objective, the oil and fund decisions, military preparation and foreign bases. Dated 1 September 1967, it precedes Resolution 242 (1967) (22 November 1967) of 22 November 1967, whose framework of withdrawal and termination of belligerency the summit text does not adopt; and it postdates by two months the June 1967 occupation whose effects it addresses, the same occupation addressed by Resolution 252 (1968) on measures to change the status of Jerusalem (21 May 1968) and Resolution 2443 (XXIII): Respect for and implementation of human rights in occupied territories (19 December 1968) in this batch.
Open questions
- The file gives no attendance list, so which Kings, Presidents and representatives were present is not established by this source.
- “The aggression of June 5” and “the effects of the aggression” are used without definition, and the occupied lands are not named.
- The Arab Solidarity Charter of Casablanca is affirmed but not reproduced, and the fund’s size, contributions and start date are not given.
Coverage
lines 1-82 of 82, read in full.