The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to inform him that, as communicated to the Director General of WIPO in the notes dated May 19, 1990, and May 22, 1990, of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, the said two States merged on May 22, 1990, into a single State called the "Republic of Yemen" and, in view of the fact that the said States were party to the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization and were members of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), as from May 22, 1990:
- the said two States are, since the said date, no longer party to the said Convention and are no longer members of the said organization, and
- from the said date, they are replaced by the Republic of Yemen, which is considered to be party to the said Convention and a member of WIPO. The contribution class of the Republic of Yemen is S.
December 20, 1990