1964 Arab League summit in Alexandria was held on 11 September 1964 in Montaza Palace , Alexandria as the second Arab League Summit . The focus of the conference was to implement the plans discussed at the first Arab League summit held in January of that year . The summit was notable for being a key step in the buildup to the Six-Day War in 1967 and separately for " approving the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization . " The 1964 Arab League summit ( Cairo ) was against the background of the 1961 breakup of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria , the continued control of the Gaza Strip by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan following the 1948 Arab – Israeli War and the recent tensions in the region driven by Israel 's proposed diversion of water from Lake Tiberias . The January 1964 summit in Cairo was convened following a statement by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser on 23 December 1963 : '' " In order to confront Israel , which challenged us last week when its chief-of-staff stood up and said " we shall divert the water against the will of the Arabs and the Arabs can do what they want " , a meeting between Arab kings and Heads of State must take place as soon as possible , regardless of the conflicts and differences between them . Those with whom we are in conflict , we are prepared to meet ; those with whom we have a quarrel , we are ready , for the sake of Palestine , to sit with . " '' The council made a number of resolutions , principally relating to Palestine and Arab unity . These resolutions included statements that the Council : The participants in the meeting were recorded in a letter to the United Nations as follows : A number of key Arab states had not yet achieved independence from Britain in 1964 , and therefore their leaders did not participate in the conference :
1964 Arab League summit ( Cairo )
1964 Arab League summit (Cairo)
1964 Arab League summit (Alexandria)