What does YAR stand for?

The secessionist language deployed by protestors suggests they are seeking to reverse the creation of the modern republic in 1990, which united the Marxist People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY, South Yemen) with the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) at the end of the Cold War.

For one thing such covert flights would certainly not have escaped the radars of so many states along the way from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Yemen Arab Republic.

North Yemen was ruled by these Hashimite Zaidis for more than 1,000 years until they were overthrown by an alliance of nationalist Sunni and Shia military officers in 1962 who then founded the Yemen Arab Republic.

Yemeni communists had tried to secede from the newly unified Yemen, a mix of Marxist South Yemen and the conservative Yemen Arab Republic in the north.

FLOSY founded the more Western-friendly Yemen Arab Republic in the North.

Abdulkarim Al-Eryany, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Yemen Arab Republic, said he hoped that the two parties would fully respect both the spirit and the letter of the 1949 Third Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of POWs and the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as the additional protocols to those Conventions.

Embassy in Sanaa in the Yemen Arab Republic, the U.

For one thing such covert flights would certainly not have escaped the radars of so many states along the way from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Yemen Arab Republic.