The Arab Voluntary Union participated in an extraordinary meeting of Arab unions to support the "Pulse of the Arabs" initiative to assist Sudanese affected by the war. The Union was represented by Mr. Anwar Buhassan, Secretary-General, and Mr. Okail Ismail, General Coordinator for Egypt, at the headquarters of the League of Arab States.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit; former Prime Minister of Egypt, Dr. Essam Sharaf; and the head of the initiative's higher committee, Ambassador Mohamed Abdullah Al-Tom, Sudan's ambassador to Cairo and its permanent representative to the League of Arab States. Also in attendance were the Deputy Chairman of the Higher Committee, Ambassador Kamal Hassan Ali; Director of the Department of Arab Organizations and Unions, Minister Plenipotentiary Mohamed Khair; President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, Ahmed Al-Jarwan; and the Executive Director of the Forum of Arab Unions at the League of Arab States.
