CAIRO: Experts of seven Arab States were reported today [April 9] to have completed ... a ... collective security pact linking them into a military, political and economic alliance against any aggressor. The draft ... was said to be ready for submission to the Council of the Arab League with ... a proviso that any ... [member] not ratifying would be liable to political and economic sanctions.

Last week, after a last minute appearance of a Jordan representative, the Council de cided to expel any member signing a separate political military or economic agreement with `Israel`. ... Arab sources in Cairo said ... that the ... alliance was a collective self-defence arrangement among Arab countries who, while binding together to resist armed attack against any one of them, reaffirm their obligations ... to settle their disputes with any nation by peaceful means.

The draft pact says in part: ` ... any armed attack against a party shall be considered ...

aggression ... against all parties. `... the other parties individually or collectively shall afford the party attacked all military and other aid ... . King Abdullah`s Jordan ... had ... been reported as being about to conclude a pact with `Israel`. ... News agencies