Yemen resumes link with U.S.

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32959, 4 July 1972, Page 13

Yemen resumes link with U.S.

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SANAA, July 3. President Iryani, of Yemen, has complained that his country is in the grip of financial difficulties, and that the other Arab States have done little to alleviate them.

The complaint is contained

in messages sent to the leaders of Libya, Algeria, Egypt, and Syria, justifying the Yemen Government’s decision to resume relations with the United States. President Iryani has asked if the leaders of those countries would provide Yemen with aid, and, if so, when. None of the four Arab States has had diplomatic relations with America since the Arab-Israeli war of June, 1967. The message is said to have set out in detail the damage incurred by Yemen because of the rupture in her

relations with the United States; this, it adds, has brought no benefit to the Arab cause. Diplomatic relations between America and Yemen were severed in 1967, when

the United States stopped all aid to Yemen and withdrew all officials of her Agency for International Development. Yemen had said that she would expel the A.I.D. mission because it was behind many acts of sabotage, including one in which, the Yemenis alleged, a bazooka shell was fired by two officials of the mission at an ammunition dump near Taez, Yemen’s second capital, with the intention of blowing up the city.

An announcement resuming relations was issued in Sanaa yesterday, and the United States Secretary of State (Mr William Rogers) arrived in the Yemeni capital last night on an unscheduled visit.