The UN Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) was established in 1963. North Yemen entered into a state of

civil war A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country). The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government polic ...

in 1962. Yemen had joined Egypt in 1958, and then in 1962, separated again, sparking the conflict. To ensure that this conflict did not escalate into an international incident, the UN set up the UN Yemen Observation Mission. Around 1963,

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and

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joined in the civil war. The task of UNYOM was to monitor Saudi Arabia and Egypt in order to make sure they did not tilt the conflict one way or another and avoided causing a potentially harmful dispute through that part of the

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Commanders

UNYOM's commanders: *Major General Carl von Horn (Sweden) – July–August 1963 *Colonel Branko Pavlovic (Yugoslavia) (acting) – August–September 1963 *Lieutenant General P.S. Gyani (India) – September–November 1963

Chiefs of Staff

UNYOM's Chiefs of Staff: *Colonel Branko Pavlovic (Yugoslavia) – November 1963 *Colonel S.C. Sabharwal (India) – November 1963 – September 1964

References

External links

* Records o
the United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) (1963–1964)
at the United Nations Archives {{UN-stub

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast an ...

North Yemen Civil War Yemen and the United Nations