Tunis: Arab leaders said on Sunday they would seek a UN Security Council resolution against the US decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and promised to support Palestinians in their bid for statehood.
Arab leaders also ended their annual summit in Tunisia calling for co-operation with Iran based on non-interference in each others' affairs.
"We, the leaders of the Arab countries gathered in Tunisia ... express our rejection and condemnation of the United States decision to recognise Israel's sovereignty over the Golan," Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said.
He said Arab countries would present a draft resolution to the UN Security Council and seek a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice on the US decision. It warned other countries away from following Washington's lead.
Trump signed a proclamation last week recognising the Golan Heights as part of Israel, which annexed the area in 1981 after capturing it from Syria in 1967.
Trump's earlier decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital also drew Arab condemnation. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz told the Arab leaders his country "absolutely rejects" any measures affecting Syria's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said Arab nations needed to ensure the international community understood the centrality of the Palestinian cause to Arab nations.
In their final communique, Arab states renewed support for an Arab peace initiative that offers Israel peace in exchange for withdrawal from all lands occupied in the 1967 war and said they would seek to revive peace talks with the Jewish state.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who also addressed the meeting in Tunis, said any resolution to the Syrian conflict must guarantee the territorial integrity of Syria "including the occupied Golan Heights".