HYST: 2007/01 The Suez Crisis (Sign up here)

Sooo....what am I?

ASAP, the MUN is dead.

I'll send a PM round in a bit but I wanted to give people checking in without prompting first dibs.

Sign me up!

That's what happens when you VNC people. Now everything is vanilla.

a) I didn't VNC you, the membership did.
b) That you can seriously blame the MUN's inactivity on the fact that you had to change countries astounds me.

Israel if it hasn't been taken yet coz I'm part Jewish apparently lol (K it's only like 1/8th but still).

My cousins are Jewish too.

...is Aden represented yet

To follow is some points from Wikipedia, showing Aden I believed it was an important place in relationship to the Suez Canal. On further investigation what I believed was a country 'as my 91 year old Uncle keeps reminding me he was their'. however i guess its no longer a country in its own right but was once represented at the British Commonwealth games.




Aden encloses the eastern side of a vast, natural harbour that comprises the modern port. The volcanic peninsula of Little Aden forms a near-mirror image, enclosing the harbour and port on the western side. Little Aden became the site of the oil refinery and tanker port. Both were established and operated by British Petroleum until they were turned over to Yemeni government ownerships and control in 1977.

Aden was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen until that country's unification with the Yemen Arab Republic when it was declared a free trade zone. It gives its name to the Gulf of Aden.


After the loss of the Suez Canal in 1956, Aden became the main base in the region for the British.

Aden sent a team of two to the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia.