UN General Assembly
1966

36. Britain has persisted in using all kinds of pressure and terror, as well as other inhuman means that violate every principle of the United Nations Charter in order to destroy the Yemeni revolution. The annals of the United Nations, as all Members know, are filled with records of British aggression against the frontiers of the Yemen Arab Republic. During the period 23 May-30 September 1966 alone, more than nine acts of aggression occurred in which all kinds of modern and destructive weapons were used against the peace-loving people of Yemen. 37. Among other methods of pressure which Britain uses against the Yemen Arab Republic is the closing of the so-called borders between the south and the north of Yemen, thinking that by so doing it would isolate the people of the south from those in the north, as well as weaken the Yemeni economy.