Joint Communiqué on sixth meeting between EU Political and Security Committee and Permanent Representatives of the League of Arab States

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The working groups for cooperation between the League of Arab States and the European Union were also convened on the margins of the meeting.

The Ambassadors held discussions on the regional challenges facing both Europe and the Arab world, with a particular focus on the Palestinian Question and ways to push the peace process forward, on developments of the situations in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Iraq, as well as on counter-terrorism, irregular migration, refugees and displaced persons, and on Iran.

In terms of EU-LAS cooperation, they recalled the reference in the EU-LAS Ministerial Declaration (Cairo, 2016) to the organisation of an EU-LAS Summit.

Background information:

The EU-LAS Strategic Dialogue was launched in November 2015.

+ Fifth meeting of the EU PSC and LAS Permanent Representatives, 30 November 2016

The sixth meeting between the European Union's Political and Security Committee (PSC) and the Permanent Representatives of the Arab League was held on 28 November 2017.

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