Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on nomenclature
- Note on transliteration
- Outline Chronology
- Introduction: The foreign relations of South Yemen
- 1 Development of foreign policy: through the first decade
- 2 The Yemeni Socialist Party: ‘normalisation’ and factional conflict
- 3 The advanced capitalist countries
- 4 The enigmas of Yemeni ‘unity’
- 5 Regional orientations: ‘solidarity’ and accommodation
- 6 In search of allies: the USSR and China
- Conclusions: revolution and foreign policy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Middle East Library
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on nomenclature
- Note on transliteration
- Outline Chronology
- Introduction: The foreign relations of South Yemen
- 1 Development of foreign policy: through the first decade
- 2 The Yemeni Socialist Party: ‘normalisation’ and factional conflict
- 3 The advanced capitalist countries
- 4 The enigmas of Yemeni ‘unity’
- 5 Regional orientations: ‘solidarity’ and accommodation
- 6 In search of allies: the USSR and China
- Conclusions: revolution and foreign policy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Middle East Library
Summary
The two Governments of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen:
In the name of the one Yemeni people, and in the name of the Arab nation, arising from the reality of historical responsibility and national responsibility; in the belief that the people of Yemen and their land is one single entity which is indivisible and that this reality has confirmed itself across history, in spite of all efforts to strengthen separatism, create barriers and borders;
In fulfilment of the sacrifice and the struggle of the Yemeni people across history in eradicating the backward monarchical imamate system in the North of the country and imperialist domination in the South; being anxious to strengthen and consolidate the progressive national struggle in Yemen; stressing that the unity of Yemen is the foundation for the building of the modern Yemeni society; assuring democratic freedoms for all national forces which are hostile to imperialism and Zionism and are the foundation for the building of an independent national economy; to safeguard the independence and sovereignty of Yemen from any interference or external aggression; stressing that comprehensive Yemeni unity is also the cause of inevitable destiny, the cause of progress, civilization and prosperity for the Yemeni people, being confident that the comprehensive unity of Yemen, in addition to its being the hope of every Yemeni throughout the land of Yemen, is a basic need to strengthen the pillars of political independence and the building of an independent national economy and is a national necessity because it enables Yemen to participate in the struggle waged by the Arab nation against the imperialist-Zionist alliance, and also represents an earnest measure for the realization of the Arab nation as a whole …
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- Revolution and Foreign PolicyThe Case of South Yemen, 1967–1987, pp. 233 - 260Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990