Fact Check: Egypt Foreign Minister Did NOT Remove Qatar Representative From Jeddah Summit

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Fact Check: Egypt Foreign Minister Did NOT Remove Qatar Representative From Jeddah Summit Didn't Happen

Did Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri kick out the representative of Qatar from the Arab League Summit? No, that's not true: The incident didn't take place.

The claim appeared in a video (archived here) where it was published by Tiktok on May 22, 2023, with the title:

"Arab League Summit headed by Sameh Shukri who kicked out Qatar representative after admitting Syria back to the Arab League, accusing Qatar of supporting terrorism in the Arab homeland. "

This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:

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(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Fri May 26 15:30:53 2023 UTC)

The video claims that after Syria was admitted back into the Arab League during its recent session in Jeddah, the Egyptian foreign minister kicked out the Qatar representative and accused him of supporting terrorism in the Arab homeland.

The video did not provide any proof to corroborate this claim. Many credible news media outlets have covered the Summit in Jeddah on May 19th, 2023, and there was no report of the Qatar representative being kicked out of the meeting.


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