U.K.: LONDON: SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION CONSTITUTIONAL TALKS OPEN IN LONDON

Record ID: 189639

  • Title: U.K.: LONDON: SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION CONSTITUTIONAL TALKS OPEN IN LONDON
  • Date: 9th June 1964
  • Summary: 1. LS EXT..LANCASTER HOUSE 0.04 2. MS SANDY GREETS SULTAN AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH 0.21 3. CS SIGN SULTAN AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH PAN UP 0.24 4. CS SIGN SULTAN FADHIL TO CU 0.32 5. CS SIGN AMIR SHAFAL TO CU 0.37 6. MLS SANDYS SPEAKING SOF BEGINS: "IT IS NOW UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED..." SOF ENDS"....ACCEPTABLE TO THE FEDERATION AND ADEN AS A WHOLE" 1.54 7. MS SULTAN AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH SOF IN ARABIC... TRANSLATOR SOF "I REFERRED YESTERDAY TO ...." ENDS "......GREATEST ARAB UNITY OF ITS OWN FREE WILL" 2.34 8. LS CONFERENCE 2.36 9. MS SEIYID ZAIN SPEAKING IN ENGLISH SOF STARTS: "IT IS AN URGENT DESIRE...." SOF ENDS".....BASED UPON THE DESIRE AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE." 3.00 Initials JM/V/BHH/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th June 1964 13:00
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  • Location: U.K. - LONDON
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA3YLND81NZGVCY5DKUXQ19YWAP
  • Story Text: MORE AID FOR SOUTH ARABIA... THAT WAS THE PLEDGE GIVEN BY BRITAIN AT THE OPENING OF THE SOUTH ARABIAN FEDERATION CONFERENCE AT LANCASTER HOUSE IN LONDON TODAY (TUESDAY). THE CONFERENCE IS INTENDED TO GIVE THE FEDERATION A MORE LIBERAL CONSTITUTION, LEADING ULTIMATELY TO INDEPENDENCE.

    WELCOMING THE DELEGATES FROM 13 ARAB SHEIKHDOMS, MR. SANDYS, BRITAIN COMMONWEALTH AND COLONIAL SECRETARY, SAID THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WAS ACTIVELY CONSIDERING WHAT FURTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT IT COULD GIVE THE FEDERATION. "IT WOULD BE QUITE ENOUGH", HE SAID, "IF THE FEDERATION WERE FACED ONLY WITH THE NORMAL PROBLEMS OF POLITICAL EVOLUTION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. UNFORTUNATELY YOU ARE FACED WITH THE CONSTANT DANGER OF INVASION FROM WITHOUT AND SUBVERSION FROM WITHIN."
    SULTAN AHMAD BIN ABDULLAH, MINISTER OF NATIONAL GUIDANCE, FADHLI STATE, SAID THAT THEY MUST ACHIEVE AN AUTONOMOUS ARAB STATE WHICH WOULD TAKE ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE ARAB FAMILY. EVERY TRUE SOUTH ARABIAN WANTED INDEPENDENCE FOR HIS COUNTRY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

    SEIYID ZAIN ABDU BAHARUN, CHIEF MINISTER, ADEN STATE SAID THAT THE FEDERATION'S PRESENT CONSTITUTION HAD NOT PROVED SATISFACTORY. THEY WANTED A CONSTITUTION BASED ON THE WILL AND DEMANDS OF THE PEOPLE. THEY WERE PART OF THE BIGGER ARAB WORLD AND WERE FACING THE GROWING NATIONALISMS THAT WERE ESTABLISHING THEMSELVES IN ALL ARAB STATES.
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