It was created on 6 October 1990 by the signature of the constitutive act by five North African States: Algeria, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
1990年10月6日，五个北非国家即阿尔及利亚、阿拉伯利比亚民众国、毛里塔尼亚、摩洛哥和突尼斯签署组织法后，该组织即告成立。