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The United Nations Security Council votes on an Arab League proposal to resolve problems in Syria with reports of hundreds of people dead in the past couple of days as a result of shelling in Homs - the People's Republic of China and Russia veto the resolution.
2012-02-4

2011–2012 Syrian uprising: The Arab League calls for a ceasefire in Syria, saying that tanks and heavy weaponry have been withdrawn from Syrian cities, but warning that snipers remain a threat.
2012-01-2

The Arab Inter-parliamentary Union, an advisory body to the Arab League, calls for the removal of its monitors in Syria, saying that they are inadvertently helping the government cover up ongoing violence.
2012-01-1

Nabil el-Araby is elected as Secretary General of the Arab League, succeeding Amr Moussa, who will run as a candidate in the Egyptian presidential election in September.
2011-05-15

The Arab League speaks out against the military airstrikes on Libya as civilians are killed.
2011-03-20

Reuters reports that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the President of the Arab League Amr Moussa have agreed to an offer by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez to mediate in the uprising.
2011-03-3

The head of the Arab League Amr Moussa announces that he will run as a candidate in the Egyptian presidential election.
2011-02-27

Libya's representatives to the Arab League, China, India and other countries resign in protest at the violence.
2011-02-21

Arriving in the Gaza Strip for the first time since Israel blockaded it in 2006, Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, calls for the blockade to be ended.
2010-06-13

Quartet on the Middle East representative Tony Blair meets leader of the Arab League Amr Moussa and concludes there is "no hope" for Palestinians without an independent state.
2010-03-8