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Arab League labels Lebanon’s Hezbollah as terrorist group

Arab League labels Lebanon's Hezbollah as terrorist group

Cairo, March 12 (IANS) The Arab League on Friday declared the Lebanese Shia Hezbollah paramilitary group as a terrorist organisation, Egypt's state-run Ahram online reported.

The decision was backed by all member states except for Lebanon and Iraq which expressed reservations, according to Ahram online.

The decision came a week after Gulf states labeled the group as a terrorist entity.

 

A number of Arab states, particularly Gulf countries, have taken measures against Hezbollah which supports Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.

The group is also accused of aiding Shia minorities to revolt against regimes in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

Foreign ministers of the pan-Arab organisation, who have been meeting in Cairo for two days, have unanimously agreed to appoint former Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit as the new chief to replace outgoing secretary-general Nabil Al-Araby, 80, who declined a second five-year term.

Founded in Cairo in 1945, the Arab League is a regional organisation of Arab states with the main goal of drawing closer inter-Arab relations and coordinating Arab positions on regional and international issues.

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