address — Sayed Abdel Rahman El Mahdi Avenue, P.O. Box 2640,
Khartoum, Sudan

telephone — [249] (11) 73646, 73498, 73709

FAX — [249] (11) 70600

established — 18 February 1974

effective — 16 September 1974

aim — to promote economic development

members — (17 plus the Palestine Liberation Organization) Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Palestine Liberation Organization; note - these are all the members of the Arab League except for Comoros, Djibouti, Somalia, and Yemen

Arab Cooperation Council (ACC)

established — 16 February 1989

aim — to promote economic cooperation and integration, possibly leading to an Arab Common Market