Cairo “Voice of the Arabs” (in Arabic) 12.15 GMT

Excerpt of report:

Somali brothers: The statement issued by the office of HM the Imam of the Yemen’s representative in Cairo contained the following greetings on the occasion of the proclamation of the independent Somali Republic:

The brotherly Somali people have celebrated their independence from protection and imperialism, and their achievement of the unity for which they have long struggled. The Yemen which is linked to Somaliland by neighborliness, the struggle for independence from imperialism, the religion of Islam, and hopes for the future sincerely wishes all success to the Somali people and their leaders.

The Yemen highly appreciates the Somali leaders’ attitude in not inviting Israel to the independence celebrations Israel, the little so-called State which defies right, justice and uprightness, which has usurped the land and homes of our brothers the Palestinian Arabs, and has been assisted in all this by the imperialist Powers ever since the Zionists first thought about establishing a new homeland for themselves.

The Yemeni people and Government appreciate the Somali people and Government’s declared refusal to recognize Israel, as an expression of the Somali people’s and Government’s solidarity with the Arab and Muslim peoples.