Lebanon 1989
The 1989 amendments to the Lebanese constitution were written as a part of a peace agreement brokered by the Arab League through its chosen representatives, the Tripartite High Commission (Algeria, Morocco, Saudi Arabia). Created in Casablanca in May 1989 to resolve the Lebanese Civil War, the Tripartite Commission assigned itself a six-month time limit to complete its work. As part of its mission, the Commission negotiated a ceasefire in Lebanon in September, which mostly held, and arranged for the surviving members of the last Lebanese legislature to meet in the Saudi Arabian town of Taif. This parliament had last been elected in 1972, and only 73 of its original 99 members remained alive. Of these, 62 accepted invitations to sit at Taif.
The Tripartite Commission presented its first draft of Taif Document on July 31, 1989 to the Arab League. Following Syrian protests, the Commission reworked the draft and presented a revised one on Sept 17, 1989, which was then submitted to the Lebanese deputies on September 30, 1989 when they arrived in Taif. This draft was slightly modified by a committee of 17 Lebanese MPs before it was given to the re-formed legislature as whole for debate. The Taif Accord that resulted from these debates was accepted unanimously on October 24th , and ratified by the same body on Lebanese soil on November 5th. The vote on the constitution was part of the vote on the Accord. News reports suggest that the many Lebanese did not view the delegates to the Taif Accord as representative.