2023 Arab League Summit
Host country	Saudi Arabia
Date	May 19, 2023 (2023-05-19)
Motto	Renewal and reform
Venue(s)	Hotel Hilton
Cities	Jeddah
Participants	22 countries
Chair	Mohammed bin Salman
Follows	2022 Arab League summit
Precedes	2024 Arab League summit

The 2023 Arab League summit, officially the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level, was a meeting of heads of state and government of member states of the League of Arab States that took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 19 May 2023. All member states were represented at the meeting, including Syria, which returned after its membership was suspended in 2011.^[1]

Background

Shortly after the conclusion of the Algiers Summit in November 2022, it was announced that the Arab League meeting at the summit level would be held in Saudi Arabia.^[2] The General Secretariat declared on 26 March 2023, following discussions with Saudi Arabia, that the Arab summit will take place on 19 May.^[3]

Participants

On 7 May, the Arab foreign ministers agreed to return Syria to its seat in the organization.^[4] On 9 May, President Bashar Al-Assad received an invitation to attend the next summit from a Saudi envoy.^[5] One day before the opening of the summit, it was announced that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be its guest and deliver a speech.^{[6][7][needs update]}

Members
Country / Organization	Represented by	Title	Ref.
Arab League	Ahmed Aboul Gheit	Secretary-General
Algeria	Aymen Benabderrahmane	Prime Minister
Bahrain	Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa	King
Comoros	Kassem Lotfi	Minister of State
Djibouti	Ismaïl Omar Guelleh	President
Egypt	Abdel Fattah el-Sisi	President
Iraq	Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani	Prime Minister
Jordan	Abdullah II	King
Kuwait	Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah	Crown Prince
Lebanon	Najib Mikati	Prime Minister
Libya	Mohamed al-Menfi	Chairman of the Presidential Council
Mauritania	Mohamed Ould Ghazouani	President
Morocco	Moulay Rachid	Special Representative of the King
Oman	Asa'ad bin Tariq	Deputy Prime Minister
Palestine	Mahmoud Abbas	President
Qatar	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Emir
Saudi Arabia	Mohammed bin Salman	Crown Prince / Prime Minister
Somalia	Hassan Sheikh Mohamud	President
Sudan	Dafallah Al-Hajj	Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Syria	Bashar al-Assad	President
Tunisia	Kais Saied	President
United Arab Emirates	Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Vice President
Yemen	Rashad al-Alimi	Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council
Guests
Country / Organization	Represented by	Title	Ref.
African Union	Moussa Faki	Chair of the Commission
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation	Hissein Brahim Taha	Secretary-General
Ukraine	Volodymyr Zelenskyy	President	[8]