QUESTIONS RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST 231 said that by continuing attacks on Yemen, by- Kingdom to suspend certain provisions of the dissolving the Legislative Council, and by dis- Constitution. This action was wholly within its missing the Council of Ministers of Aden, the responsibility. British authorities had flouted the Security (On 10 November, the President of the Gen- Council and General Assembly resolutions con- eral Assembly transmitted to the President of cerning the question of Aden.11 He charged the Security Council the text of a resolution that British aircraft had violated Yemen air (2023(XX)) concerning Aden adopted by the space on 4, 5, 9, 12 and 27 August and that General Assembly on 5 November 1965 by which British troops had opened fire against Yemeni the Assembly, among other things, drew the territory. Council's attention to the "dangerous" situa- On 5 October, the representatives of , tion prevailing in the area as a result of Brit- Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mo- ish military action against the people. (See rocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United below, pp. 559-60.) Arab Republic and Yemen addressed a letter In a letter on 8 November, the United King- to the President of the Security Council in which dom representative informed the Security they complained about the British Govern- Council that no British military aircraft had ment's suspension of the Aden Constitution. been responsible for the alleged overflights of These arbitrary measures, they said, were con- Yemeni territory on 4, 5, 9, 12 and 27 August trary to the provisions of the Charter and to as mentioned in the Yemeni letter of 1 Octo- the resolutions of the General Assembly and ber. of the Assembly's Special Committee on the In reply to the United Kingdom's letter of Situation with regard to the Implementation 8 November, the representative of Yemen, on of the Declaration on the Granting of Inde- 29 November, said there had been 14 new pendence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. acts of aggression committed against his coun- In reply, the United Kingdom representa- try. The Yemen Government, in drawing the tive, on 13 October, said his Government had attention of the Security Council to this dan- repeatedly declared its firm intention of bring- gerous situation, reserved to itself the legitimate ing South Arabia to independence not later right of self-defence should the situation de- than 1968. In view of a terrorist campaign in teriorate or persist.

Aden which the former Aden Ministers refused 11 to condemn, it became necessary for the United See Y.U.N., 1964, pp. 414-17 for background.

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