Term As President of Yemen
Abdul Rahman Al-Eryani opposed the Egyptian and Saudi interference in Yemen affairs and led with two of his colleagues, Ahmed Noaman and Mohamad Al-Zubairi, a strong movement against the foreign involvement of Nasser's Egypt in the Yemeni civil war between republicans and royalists. He was held in Egypt with Noaman in 1966 while their partner Al-Zubairi was assassinated earlier.
In 1970, he arrived at a national conciliation agreement with the supporters of the royal regime and established a formal relation with Saudi Arabia. In 1972, he reached an agreement with South Yemen for the unification of the two parts of the country, which constituted the basic foundations for the unification of 1990. It was also during his regime that Yemen had parliamentary elections and permanent constitution for the first time.
Al-Eryani went into exile in Syria in 1974, where he eventually died in 1998, aged 89.
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