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{{Short description|Resolution issued at the 1967 Arab League summit after the Six-Day War with Israel}}
{{For|the "Three Noes" policy established in April 1979 by the Republic of China|Three Noes}}
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{{Quote box|quote={{Verse translation|lang=ar|italicsoff=1|rtl1=1|1=
،لا صلح مع إسرائيل
،لا تفاوض مع إسرائيل
.لا اعتراف بإسرائيل
|2=No peace with Israel, 
No negotiation with Israel, 
No recognition of Israel.
}}|source={{citation|title=Khartoum Resolution|year=1967|chapter=The Three Noes<!-- |trans-chapter=اللاءات الثلاث|at=paragraph 3 -->}} }}
The '''Khartoum Resolution''' ({{langx|ar|قرار الخرطوم}}) of 1 September 1967 was issued at the conclusion of the [[1967 Arab League summit]], which was convened in [[Khartoum]], the capital of [[Republic of the Sudan (1956–1969)|Sudan]], in the wake of the [[Six-Day War]]. The resolution is famous for containing (in the third paragraph) what became known as the "'''Three Noes'''" ({{langx|ar|اللاءات الثلاث}}) or "'''The Three Noes of Khartoum'''" ({{lang|ar|لاءات الخرطوم الثلاث}}).<ref name="jazeera-3-noes">{{cite web |date=29 August 2016 |title=مؤتمر الخرطوم 1967.. قمة اللاءات الثلاث |trans-title=Khartoum Conference 1967.. Summit of the Three No's |url=https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/2016/8/29/%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85-1967-%D9%82%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202190433/https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/2016/8/29/%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B1%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85-1967-%D9%82%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AB |archive-date=2 February 2023 |website=Al-Jazeera |language=ar}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/This-Week-In-History-The-Arab-Leagues-three-nos|title=This Week in History: The Arab League Three No's|work=[[Jerusalem Post]]|date=26 August 2012 |access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref>

== Resolution text ==
#The conference has affirmed the unity of Arab states, the unity of joint action and the need for coordination and for the elimination of all differences. The Kings, Presidents and representatives of the other Arab Heads of State at the conference have affirmed their countries' stand by an implementation of the Arab Solidarity Charter which was signed at the third Arab summit conference in Casablanca.
#The conference has agreed on the need to consolidate all efforts to eliminate the effects of the aggression on the basis that the occupied lands are Arab lands and that the burden of regaining these lands falls on all the Arab States.
#The Arab Heads of State have agreed to unite their political efforts at the international and diplomatic level to eliminate the effects of the aggression and to ensure the withdrawal of the aggressive Israeli forces from the Arab lands which have been occupied since the aggression of 5 June. This will be done within the framework of the main principles by which the Arab States abide, namely, no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it, and insistence on the rights of the Palestinian people in their own country.
#The conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil recommended that suspension of oil pumping be used as a weapon in the battle. However, after thoroughly studying the matter, the summit conference has come to the conclusion that the oil pumping can itself be used as a positive weapon, since oil is an Arab resource which can be used to strengthen the economy of the Arab States directly affected by the aggression, so that these States will be able to stand firm in the battle. The conference has, therefore, decided to resume the pumping of oil, since oil is a positive Arab resource that can be used in the service of Arab goals. It can contribute to the efforts to enable those Arab States which were exposed to the aggression and thereby lost economic resources to stand firm and eliminate the effects of the aggression. The oil-producing States have, in fact, participated in the efforts to enable the States affected by the aggression to stand firm in the face of any economic pressure.
#The participants in the conference have approved the plan proposed by Kuwait to set up an Arab Economic and Social Development Fund on the basis of the recommendation of the Baghdad conference of Arab Ministers of Finance, Economy and Oil.
#The participants have agreed on the need to adopt the necessary measures to strengthen military preparation to face all eventualities.
#The conference has decided to expedite the elimination of foreign bases in the Arab States.

==Interpretations==
Commentators have frequently presented the resolution as an example of Arab rejectionism. 
Abd al Azim Ramadan stated that the Khartoum decisions left only one option—war.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meital |first1=Yoram |title=The Khartoum Conference and Egyptian Policy after the 1967 War: A Reexamination |journal=Middle East Journal |date=2000 |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=64–82 |jstor=4329432 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4329432}}</ref>  [[Efraim Halevy]], Guy Ben-Porat, [[Steven R. David]], [[Julius Stone]], and [[Ian Bremmer]] all agree the Khartoum Resolution amounted to a rejection of [[Israel's right to exist]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Halevy |first=Efraim |title=Israel's Hamas Portfolio |url=http://israelcfr.com/documents/issue6_hamas.pdf |publisher=[[Israel Council on Foreign Relations]] |access-date=8 June 2012 |author-link=Efraim Halevy |quote=Indeed, twenty years later, after two successive wars, the Arab world rejected Israel's right to exist at the infamous Khartoum Conference of 196[7] – 'the three NOs': no to recognition, no to negotiation, and no to peace were uttered in response to Israel's appeal to negotiate without any preconditions. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225221835/http://israelcfr.com/documents/issue6_hamas.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Ben-Porat|first=Guy|title= Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland|year=2006|publisher= [[Syracuse University Press]]|location=[[Syracuse, New York]]|isbn= 0-8156-3069-7|chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=o0EVZoyteO8C&pg=PA145|access-date=8 June 2012|page=145|chapter= Chapter 7: Israel, Globalization, and Peace|quote= Convening in Khartoum shortly after the war, Arab states declared their refusal to negotiate with Israel or to recognize its right to exist.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=David|first=Steven R.|title=Contemporary Israel: Domestic Politics, Foreign Policy, and Security Challenges|year=2009|publisher=[[Westview Press|WestView Press]]|location=[[Boulder, Colorado]]|isbn=978-0-8133-4385-3|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOywsZizLi0C&pg=PA559|author-link=Steven R. David|editor=Freedman, Robert O.|editor-link=Robert Freedman (political scientist)|access-date=8 June 2012|page=559|chapter=Chapter 13: Existential Threats to Israel|quote=Following Israel's success, in what became known as the Six Day War, the Arab states reinforced their refusal to accept Israel's existence when, in a conference in Khartoum, Sudan, they declared they would not negotiate with Israel, make peace with Israel, or recognize its right to exist.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Stone|first=Julius|title=The Arab-Israeli Conflict|year=1975|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|location=[[Princeton, New Jersey]]|isbn=0691010668|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xxWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA336|author-link=Julius Stone|editor=Moore, John Norton|access-date=8 June 2012|page=336|chapter=Chapter 39: Between Ceasefires in the Middle East|quote= The Arab states, denying Israel's 'right to exist', continued after Khartoum to insist on 'no recognition, no negotiation, no peace', demanding complete Israeli withdrawal from}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Bremmer|first=Ian|title=The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall|year=2006|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|location=[[New York, NY]]|isbn=0-7432-9371-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIU14x1yEZkC|author-link=Ian Bremmer|access-date= 8 June 2012|page=209|chapter=Chapter Five: The Right Side of the J Curve|quote=Immediately after the Six-Day War, Arab leaders—including those of the Palestine Liberation Organization—agreed in Khartoum they would not make peace with Israel, would not negotiate with Israel, would not even recognize Israel's right to exist.}}</ref> The [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) itself enlisted the Khartoum Resolution to advocate against acceptance of Israel's right to exist as articulated in [[United Nations Security Council Resolution 242]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Vol. 1|year=2008|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|location=[[Santa Barbara, California]]|isbn=978-1-85109-841-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA1289|editor=Tucker, Spencer C.|editor-link=Spencer C. Tucker|access-date= 8 June 2012|page=1289|quote=The PLO disagreed entirely with the provisions whereby Arab nations were expected to recognize Israel's right to exist, claiming that these not only ran counter to the Arab states' earlier Khartoum Summit Conference declaration but were also 'fundamentally and gravely inconsistent with the Arab character of Palestine, the essence of the Palestinian cause and the right of the Palestinian people to their homeland.'}}
</ref> [[Benny Morris]] wrote that the Arab leaders "hammered out a defiant, rejectionist platform that was to bedevil all peace moves in the region for a decade" despite an Israeli offer on 19 June 1967 "to give up Sinai and the Golan in exchange for peace."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/righteousvictims00morr_0/page/346|title=Righteous victims : a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881–1999|last=Morris|first=Benny|publisher=Vintage Books|year=2001|isbn=9780679744757|pages=[https://archive.org/details/righteousvictims00morr_0/page/346 346]|oclc=234104996|url-access=registration}}</ref> [[Odd Bull]] of the [[UNTSO]] opined in much the same manner in 1976.<ref>{{Cite book|title=War and peace in the Middle East the experiences a views of a U.N. observer|last=Bull|first=Odd|publisher=Leo Cooper|year=1976|isbn=9780850522266|pages=126|oclc=490839078}}</ref>

[[Avi Shlaim]] has argued that Arab spokesmen interpreted the Khartoum declarations to mean "no formal peace ''treaty'', but not a rejection of peace; no ''direct'' negotiations, but not a refusal to talk through third parties; and no ''de jure'' recognition of Israel, but acceptance of its existence as a state" (emphasis in original). Shlaim states that the conference marked a turning point in Arab–Israeli relations by noting that [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] urged [[Hussein of Jordan]] to seek a "comprehensive settlement" with Israel. Shlaim acknowledges that none of that was known in Israel at the time, whose leaders took the "Three Nos" at face value.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The iron wall: Israel and the Arab world|last=Shlaim|first=Avi|publisher=Penguin|year=2001|isbn=9780140288704|pages=258–259|oclc=59510046}}</ref> Fred Khouri argued that "the Khartoum conference cleared the way for the Arab moderates to seek a political solution and to offer, in exchange for their conquered lands, important concessions short of actually recognizing Israel and negotiating formal peace treaties with her."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Arab-Israeli dilemma|last=Khouri|first=Fred|publisher=Syracuse University Press|year=1987|pages=312–314|oclc=634263471}}</ref>

In the event, indirect negotiations between Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Syria eventually opened through the auspices of the [[Jarring Mission]] (1967–1973), and secret direct talks also took place between Israel and Jordan, but neither avenue succeeded in achieving a meaningful settlement, which set the stage for a new round of conflict.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} 

An unpublished study, reported in 2010, of the Jarring Mission argued that Jarring's efforts actually paved the way for the future peace talks and so were more significant than is commonly assumed.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Seeds of Peace |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2010-09-22/ty-article/seeds-of-peace/0000017f-f74e-d460-afff-ff6ed7460000 |newspaper=Haaretz}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Arab–Israeli conflict]]
*[[International law and the Arab–Israeli conflict]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

{{Arab–Israeli diplomacy}}

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