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94International organizations — Immunity — Jurisdictional immunity — National of foreign State employed by international organization as chauffeur — Contract of employment — Claim for unfair dismissal — Whether international organization entitled to jurisdictional immunity — Whether any rule of customary international law recognizing jurisdictional immunity of international organization in absence of binding treaty provisionRelationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Treaty approved by legislature — Whether treaty possessing legal effect in national law before entry into force in international lawTreaties — Entry into force — Conditions — Multilateral treaties — Requirement of ratification by legislature — Whether ratification sufficient for entry into force in domestic legal order where treaty not yet in force at international level in absence of requisite number of ratifications — Bilateral treaty — Requirement of assent by legislature — Whether absence of assent preventing enforcement of treaty in domestic legal order — Whether fact that treaty binding at international level relevant — The law of Belgium

"The Arab World," said Mr. Anthony Eden, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in his speech at the Mansion House, May 29, 1941, "has made great strides since the settlement reached at the end of the last war, and many Arab thinkers desire for the Arab peoples a greater degree of unity than they now enjoy. In reaching out towards this unity, they hope for our support. No such appeal from our friends should go unanswered. It seems to me both natural and right that the cultural and economic ties, too, should be strengthened. His Majesty's Government for their part will give their full support to any scheme that commands general approval."The Arab nationalists long ago aspired to achieve the ideal of an Arab union, or federation. But, they maintained, European imperialism had deliberately prevented the realization of that ideal. The Arabs had. fought on the side of the Allies in the first World War in order to achieve their freedom from Ottoman rule; but, following that war, the Arab World was detached from Turkish sovereignty only to be dominated by European Powers who, by applying the principle of mandatory tutelage, sought to satisfy their imperialistic interests. Moreover, the nationalists contended, the Arab World was deliberately divided into separate countries in order to make easy their domination by creating small and hopelessly weak states.

Somehow the League of Arab States managed to top its first Arab-American Day reception, which followed a private viewing of the award-winning exhibition '1001 Inventions' at the National Geographic building in Washington, DC. That exhibit celebrated scientific and technological contributions of Muslim and Arab civilizations in the past thousand years. Sameh Alfonse, who heads the Arab League's Congressional and Media Affairs office in Washington, DC, welcomed attendees on behalf of hosts the Arab League and the Council of Arab Ambassadors, and introduced Andrew Gelfuso, VP of the Office for Trade Promotion at the International Trade Center. Gelfuso said he was honored to host this important celebration. The Arab League's Ambassador to the United States Mohammed Al-Hussaini Al-Sharif reminded listeners that the previous Arab-American Day celebrated past accomplishments of the Arab and Muslim world. Adapted from the source document.

Report of the Head of the League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria for the period from 24 December 2011 to 18 January 2012