Short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen (1958–1961)
This article is about the 1958–1961 confederation between the United Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen. For the 1958–1961 union of Egypt and Syria, see United Arab Republic. For the 1958 confederation between the Kingdom of Iraq and the Kingdom of Jordan, see Arab Federation. For the 1972-1977 union of Libya, Egypt and Syria, see Federation of Arab Republics. For the 1974 union of Tunisia and Libya, see Arab Islamic Republic. For the general concept of a united Arab state, see Arab Union.
United Arab States
الدول العربية المتحدة ad-Duwal al-‘Arabīyah al-Muttaḥidah
1958–1961
Flag
Coat of arms
Capital
Cairo
Common languages
Arabic
Religion
Islam
Historical era
Arab Cold War
• Established
8 March 1958
• Disestablished
26 December 1961
Preceded by
Succeeded by
United Arab Republic
Kingdom of Yemen
Egypt
Syria
Kingdom of Yemen
The United Arab States (UAS, Arabic: الدول العربية المتحدة) was a short-lived confederation of the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (North Yemen) from 1958 to 1961.
A stamp from the Kingdom of Yemen commemorating the United Arab States
The United Arab Republic was a sovereign state formed by the union of Egypt and Syria in 1958. The same year, the Kingdom of Yemen (North Yemen), which had already signed a defense pact with Egypt, joined with the new state on March 8, 1958, in a loose confederation called the United Arab States. One reason for this decision was that, for a long time, Yemen had felt threatened by its considerably larger and more powerful northern neighbour, Saudi Arabia (the two had fought a war in 1934, and still shared a partially undemarcated border), and thus saw the confederation as a source of security.[1] However, unlike the member countries of the United Arab Republic, North Yemen remained an independent sovereign state. It maintained its UN membership and separate embassies throughout the whole period of confederation.
Neither the union nor the confederation fulfilled their role as vehicles of pan-Arabism or Arab nationalism, as they were dissolved in 1961.
^Ghanem, Isam (1981). Yemen: Political History, Social Structure and Legal System. Arthur Probsthain. p. 8. ISBN 978-0853820185.
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