HC Deb 28 February 1966 vol 725 c223W
Mr. Wyatt

asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies if she will specify the nature of the treaties and understandings under which an obligation exists to protect certain unfederated states in South Arabia, as referred to in Chapter II, Paragraph 3, of Part II of the Statement on the Defence Estimates.

Mrs. White

There are Treaties of Friendship and Protection with the unfederated States of South Arabia which include undertakings by the British Government to protect the territories concerned and undertakings by the rulers not to enter into relations with foreign powers without the consent of the British Government. These Treaties would come to an end on independence.