United Arab States

Confederation in the Middle East (1958–1961)

This article is about the 1958–1970 confederation between the United Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen. For the 1958–1961 union of Egypt and Syria, see United Arab Republic. For the 1958 confederation between the Kingdom of Iraq and the Kingdom of Jordan, see Arab Federation. For the 1972-1977 union of Libya, Egypt and Syria, see Federation of Arab Republics. For the 1974 union of Tunisia and Libya, see Arab Islamic Republic. For the general concept of a united Arab state, see Arab Union.

United Arab States

اتحاد الدول العربية

1958–1961

Flag of the United Arab Republic (left) and flag of North Yemen (right)

Capital| Cairo and Sana'a
Common languages| Arabic
Religion

| Islam
Historical era| Arab Cold War

• Established

| 8 March 1958

• Disestablished

| 26 December 1961

Preceded by | Succeeded by

|

|  | United Arab Republic

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| Kingdom of Yemen
| United Arab Republic |

|

Syria |
Kingdom of Yemen |

The United Arab States (UAS, Arabic: اتحاد الدول العربية) was a short-lived confederation between the United Arab Republic and the Kingdom of Yemen from 1958 to 1961.

A stamp from the Kingdom of Yemen commemorating the United Arab States

The United Arab Republic was a sovereign state formed by the union of Egypt and Syria in 1958. The same year, the Kingdom of Yemen, which had already signed a defense pact with Egypt, entered a loose confederation with the UAR called the United Arab States on March 8. One reason for this decision was because North Yemen had felt threatened by its considerably larger and more powerful northern neighbor Saudi Arabia[a] and saw the confederation as a source of security.[1] However, unlike the constituent countries of the United Arab Republic, North Yemen remained an independent sovereign state, maintaining its UN membership and separate embassies throughout the whole period of confederation.

Neither the union nor the confederation fulfilled their role as vehicles of pan-Arabism or Arab nationalism, resulting in its dissolution in 1961.

## List of Leaders of the United Arab States

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Country  | Name  | Term of Office  | Party

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United Arab Republic | Gamal Abdel Nasser

جمال عبد الناصر

(1918–1970)

| 23 June 1956  | 28 September 1970  | Arab Socialist Union (UAR)
Kingdom of Yemen | Ahmad bin Yahya

أحمد بن يحيى حميد الدين

(1891–1962)

| 17 February 1948  | 19 September 1962  | None

## See also

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* Arab Federation, a confederation between Iraq and Jordan (1958)
* United Arab Republic, a union of Egypt and Syria (1958–1961)
* Federation of Arab Republics, a confederation of Egypt, Libya and Syria (1972–1977)
* Union of Arab Republics, a proposed union of Egypt, Iraq and Syria (1972)
* Arab Islamic Republic, a proposed union of Libya and Tunisia (1974)

## Notes

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1. ^ The two had fought a war in 1934, and still shared a partially undemarcated border

## References

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1. ^ Ghanem, Isam (1981). Yemen: Political History, Social Structure and Legal System. Arthur Probsthain. p. 8\. ISBN 978-0853820185.

## External links

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* The Charter of the United Arab States. in Basic Documents of the Arab Unifications. p. 21.

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