United Pakistan – United Arab Republic (1958–1971) relations

Republic of United Arabs—United Pakistan relations

United Arab Political Union	PAKISTAN   (Occupied Kashmir)

The United Arab Republic was a sovereign state in the Middle East from 1958 until 1961. It was initially a political union between Egypt (including the occupied Gaza Strip) and Syria from 1958 until Syria seceded from the union following the 1961 Syrian coup d'état. Egypt continued to be known officially as the United Arab Republic until September 1971 when it was formally dissolved by Anwar Sadat.

The republic was led by Gamal Abdel Nasser as the Egyptian president. The UAR was a member of the United Arab States, a loose confederation with the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, which was dissolved in 1961. ‘By the late summer of 1957 Syria was on the verge of disintegration as an organized political community.’ Although Nasser’s intervention had served to defuse what might be termed the great-power crisis there, many Syrians had lost confidence in the future of their country as an independent state. The fact that it had required the deployment of Egyptian troops to stabilize the situation in the country had merely served to reinforce this sentiment. Syria had become the object of competition not only between rival Arab states, but also between the Superpowers, and the rival poles of attraction seemed to be pulling the country apart, A United Front would also counterbalance the threat of Israel in the volatile region. Whereas hostilities have remained to this day. This was a Confederation established by uniting Egypt, Syria and the All-Palestine Government into a New state. Theoretically all of the former Mandate of Palestine was included in the Republic, but was de facto limited to the Gaza Strip which was held under military occupation by Egypt. Syria withdrew from the confederation in 1961, and while the state continued to exist under the same name it was effectively reduced to Egypt.

United Pakistan – United Arab States

The inclusion of North Yemen in UAS.

However, unlike the member countries of the United Arab Republic, North Yemen remained an independent sovereign state. It maintained its UN membership and separate embassies throughout the whole period of confederation.

Neither the Union nor the Confederation fulfilled their role as vehicles of pan-Arabism or Arab nationalism, as they were dissolved in 1961.

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