§ 53. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will give particulars of the various treaties which are in force between Her Majesty's Government and the Government of the Yemen.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydRelations between Her Majesty's Government and the Yemen Government are governed by the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Cooperation signed at San'a on 11th February, 1934, and by an Exchange of Notes dated 20th January, 1951, in London. Article 3 of the 1934 Treaty provides that before the expiry of the Treaty in 1974 negotiations shall take place between the two Governments to settle the southern frontier of the Yemen and that pending the conclusion of these negotiations
the high contracting parties agree to maintain the situation existing in regard to the frontier on the date of the signature of this treaty, and both high contracting parties undertake that they will prevent, by all means at their disposal, any violation by their forces of the above-mentioned frontier, and any interference by their subjects, or from their side of that frontier, with the affairs of the people inhabiting the other side of the said frontier.The 1951 Exchange of Notes provided among other things, that diplomatic relations should be established and that various disputed parts of the de facto frontier between the Yemen and the Aden Protectorate should be demarcated on the ground by a joint Anglo-Yemen Commission.