Yemen Arab Republic

Summary

The Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) is a member of the United Nations (September 30, 1947). It is a member of the League of Arab States and of other international organizations. The Kingdom of Yemen was founded by a revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1904. Yemen was under Ottoman rule from 1568 to 1630 and from 1849 to 1904, when it rose against the Turks. Ottoman rule was formally ended in 1918 when Turkey surrendered all its Arab territories. From 1958 to 1961 it federated with the United Arab Republic (Egypt) to form the United Arab States. On September 18, 1962, the Imam was deposed and a republic proclaimed, and on October 31, 1962, a provisional constitution was promulgated. From 1962 to 1970, there was civil war, Egypt supplying the troops to assist the republicans. The last Egyptian troops left in 1967. In 1977, President Hamidi was assassinated. In 1979, a ten day war between the Yemen Arab Republic and the Yemen People’s Democratic Republic was ended by the Kuwait agreements. Negotiations between the two Yemens for a union based on proposals of a mixed constitutional committee formed at Kuwait went on through 1981 and 1982. Their progress was impeded by the serious fighting between government forces and guerrillas of the National Democratic Front near the South Yemen border and supplied by South Yemen. An agreement of January 1980 for the integration of the NDF into the political life of the country was never put into effect.