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Saudi Arabia and the
border question
For more than 60 years Yemen and Saudi
Arabia quarrelled over their largely undefined border. The
dispute was eventually settled in 2000 by the Treaty of
Jeddah.
Documents
The Treaty of
Ta'if
29 May 1934 (full text)
Saudi-Yemeni Memorandum of
Understanding
26 February 1995 (full text)
The Treaty of
Jeddah
12 June, 2000
London conference
27 January, 2010 (final statement – full text)
Articles
Commentary on
the Yemeni-Saudi border agreement
June, 2000
Jeddah treaty did
injustice to Yemen
by Tahir Ali Seif, Yemeni Member of Parliament [Yemen Times,
17 July, 2000]
Negotiating the
Saudi-Yemeni international boundary
by Richard Schofield (British-Yemeni Society Journal, July 2000)
Plain
tales from the sands
Border relations with Saudi Arabia during the British occupation of
southern Yemen
by Jim Ellis (British-Yemeni Society Journal, July 2000)
Yemen and
stability in the Persian Gulf
by Stephen C. Pelletiere, US Army War College, Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, May 1996
Maps
Territorial
claims in the border area
(British-Yemeni Society Journal, July 2000)
Overlapping
territorial claims
(British-Yemeni Society Journal, July 2000)
News reports
Pawns of Gulf war live
forgotten in Yemen camps. The Guardian, 7-Jan-93
Crisis over the border
Middle East International, 29-Jan-95
Seeking to reassure?
Middle East International, 17-Feb-95
Limited agreement
Middle East International, 3-Mar-95
Breaking the ice
Middle East International, 23-Jun-95
Border tensions
Middle East International, 8-Aug-97
Row over Haramawt
Middle East International, 12-Sep-97
Border deal nearer
Middle East International, 26-Sep-97
Spate of kidnappings
Middle East International, 7-Nov-97
Tensions with the Saudis
Middle East International, 19-Dec-97
Border dispute flares
Middle East International, 5-Jun-98
Border row with the Saudis
Middle East International, 31-Jul-98
Trouble
on the border
Middle East International, 11-Feb-00
Reconciliations
afoot?
Middle East International, 25-Feb-00
Saudi
border deal
Middle East International, 16-Jun-00
Eritrea and the
dispute over Hunaish In December 1995,
Eritrean forces seized a small island in the Red Sea which was
claimed by Yemen. The dispute was eventually settled by
international arbitration.
Clash over islands:
Middle East International, 5 Jan 1996
French mediation:
Middle East International, 2 Feb 1996
To the Security Council:
Middle East International, 1 Mar 1996
Shuttle diplomacy:
Middle East International, May 1996
Solution at hand:
Middle East International, 24 May 1996
Findings of the
arbitration court - 9 October, 1998
Favourable ruling:
Middle East International, 16 October 1998
Eritrea-Yemen
conflict (Canadian Forces College)
Yemen's claim to
Hunaish
Evidence from maps in the US Library of Congress (from the Ministry of Information website)
Yemen and the islands
of the Red Sea
(from Ministry of Information
website)
The
Eritrea/Yemen Arbitration
Paper by Barbara Kwiatkowska, 2004
Documents
on the international arbitration
from the Permanent Court of Arbitration
Chart
The international maritime boundary line
Yemen and Oman Oman
and Yemen: an historic re-encounter
by Fred Halliday (British-Yemeni
Society Journal, July 2000)
Yemen and the United
States
Yemen
and the US
Background to relations in the light of the USS Cole bombing
Comment
on US-Yemeni relations
Yemen Times, 13 Nov 2000
Friends
in Washington
Yemen Gateway, December 1998
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