YEMEN: U.A.R. BANQUET HONOURS VISITING KING SAUD OF SAUDI ARABIA

Record ID: 189635

  • Title: YEMEN: U.A.R. BANQUET HONOURS VISITING KING SAUD OF SAUDI ARABIA
  • Date: 28th April 1967
  • Summary: 1. MLV.KING SAUD ARRIVING 0.03 2. MV.EX-KING SAUD AND OTHERS STAND WHILE NATIONAL ANTHEM PLAYED 0.20 3. MV.EX-KING SAUD AND FIELD MARSHAL ABDEL HAKIM AMER ENTER BUILDING 0.32 4. MV.EX-KING AND OTHERS WALKING THROUGH HALLWAY 0.44 5. MV.DIPLOMATS IN HALLWAY 0.56 Initials IF/VS/BHH/JG Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th May 1967 13:00
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  • Location: THE YEMEN
  • Country: Yemen
  • Reuters ID: LVADTHUUT1HF48SZQFTU22WULIR8
  • Story Text: EX-KING SAUD OF ARABIA RETURNED TO CAIRO ON TUESDAY NIGHT AFTER A THREE-DAY VISIT TO THE YEMEN. AT A BANQUET THE PREVIOUS EVENING HE REITERATED HIS DETERMINATION TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH TO REGAIN THE SAUDI ARABIAN THRONE.

    HOST AT THE BANQUET WAS THE COMMANDER OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC (U.A.R.) FORCES IN THE YEMEN, MAJOR-GENERAL TALAAT HASSAN. THE EX-KING WAS ACCOMPANIED BY MARSHAL ABDEL HAKIM AMER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. OTHER GUESTS OF HONOUR INCLUDED YEMENI PRESIDENT ABDULLAH AL-SALIAL, AND THE SPEAKER OF THE U.A.R. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, EL SAYED ANWAR EL SADAT. MEMBERS OF THE FLOSY COMMAND COUNCIL WERE ALSO PRESENT.

    EX-KING SAUD WAS DEPOSED BY HIS HALF-BROTHER KING FEISAL IN 1964. HIS VISIT TO YEMEN HAS BEEN SEEN AS AN INTENSIFICATION OF THE OPEN CONFRONTATION BETWEEN PRESIDENT NASSER AND KING FEISAL, WHO SUPPORTS THE YEMENI ROYALISTS.
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