VOL. XXXI

NO. 30

2-MAY-1988

NORTH YEMEN-SOUTH YEMEN

Agreement to Reduce Military Tension in Border Area

The leaders of North and South Yemen have agreed at their latest meeting inTa'iz on 17 April to scale down the military build-up in the undemarcated areabetween the two countries in which tensions have been exacerbated by thediscovery of oil (MEES, 25 April).

Mr. 'Ali Salem al-Baidh, Secretary General of South Yemen's Socialist Partyand head of his country's delegation to the Ta'iz talks, told...