Editing Foreign relations of Yemen (section)

===Unified Yemen===
The [[Gulf War|Persian Gulf crisis]] dramatically affected Yemen's foreign relations. As a member of the [[UN Security Council]] (UNSC) for 1990 and 1991, Yemen abstained from several UNSC resolutions concerning Iraq and [[Kuwait]] and voted against the "use of force resolution". Western and Persian Gulf Arab states reacted by curtailing or canceling aid programs and diplomatic contacts. At least 850,000 Yemenis returned from Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf.

After the liberation of Kuwait, Yemen continued to maintain high-level contacts with Iraq. This hampered its efforts to rejoin the Arab mainstream and to mend fences with its immediate neighbors. In 1993, Yemen launched an unsuccessful diplomatic offensive to restore relations with its Persian Gulf neighbors. Some of its aggrieved neighbors actively aided the South during the [[Yemeni civil war (1994)|1994 civil war]]. Since the end of that conflict, tangible progress has been made on the diplomatic front in restoring normal relations with Yemen's neighbors. The Omani-Yemeni border has been officially demarcated. In the summer of 2000, Yemen and Saudi Arabia signed an International Border Treaty settling a 50-year-old dispute over the location of the border between the two countries. Yemen settled its [[Hanish Islands conflict|dispute]] with [[Eritrea]] over the [[Hanish Islands]] in 1998.