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Southeast Asian Defense Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The first meeting of the foreign ministers of the signatories of the Southeast Asian Defense Treaty (SEATO) which had entered into force on February 19, 1955, was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from February 23 to 25, 1955,1 under the chairmanship of Prince Wan Waithayakon, Foreign Minister of Thailand. In the communique issued at the close of the meetings, the foreign ministers observed that their meeting had been held “in circumstances which gave increasing urgency to the objectives of the Treaty”.

Type
International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
Information
International Organization , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , May 1955 , pp. 306 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1955

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References

1 For information on the establishment of SEATO, see International Organization, VIII, p. 611–612Google Scholar; for the text of the treaty, see ibid., p. 617–621.

2 New York Times, February 25, 1955.

3 For the text of the communique and statement, see ,Department of State Bulletin, XXXII, p. 371–373Google Scholar.