The Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) is one of the oldest arab joint action institutions pertaining to the League of Arab States system. 

  The first conference of arab broadcasters, held in August 1955, issued a recommendation whereby Arab States were urged to adopt a draft convention on the creation of an Arab States Broadcasting Union. The first Ordinary General Assembly of the new body convened in February 1969 at Khartoum, Sudan to declare officially the creation of the Arab States Broadcasting Union and defined its overall objective in these terms: «to strengthen relations, foster cooperation among Arab audio-visual broadcasting institutions with a view to enhancing their performances in both form and content enabling thus the newly-created organization to fully play its role in bolstering Arab brotherhood and raising an Arab generation conscious and proud of its Arab national identity». 

  On 24 December 1995, the General Assembly convened in Tunis for its 6th Extraordinary Session, adopted a resolution to amend the Union’s Convention in such a way as to allow for the adoption of a self-financing system and keep pace with all developments taking place in the audio-visual world.