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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Tenth meeting: The tenth meeting of the Council of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was held in London on May 3–5, 1965, under the chairmanship of Michael Stewart, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom. Other member governments were represented by Paul Hasluck, Minister for External Affairs of Australia; D. J. Eyre, Minister of Defense of New Zealand; Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan; Librado D. Cayco, Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines; Thanat Khoman, Minister of Foreign Aflairs of Thailand; and George W. Ball, Under Secretary of State of the United States. Achille Clarac, French Ambassador in Bangkok and Council representative for France, also attended the London session as an observer. (On April 20 the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs had announced that France would not send a delegation to the meeting although Ambassador Clarac would be present as an observer only.)

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1966

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References

1 SEATO Record, 06 1965 (Vol. 4, No. 3), pp. 426Google Scholar; Department of State Bulletin, 06 7, 1965 (Vol. 52, No. 1354), pp. 923926Google Scholar; and Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 24—31, 1965 (Vol. 14), pp. 2087620877Google Scholar. For a summary of the ninth Council meeting in Manila and other SEATO activities see International Organization, Summer 1964 (Vol. 18, No. 3), pp. 657659CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 A statement issued in Paris on April 20 stated that the debates at the forthcoming SEATO Council meeting in London would principally deal with the countries of former Indochina, and particularly with Vietnam. The Manila conference had underlined the existing fundamental differences on this problem, and it was likely that the same situation would arise at the London session. Under these conditions, the statement said, the French government considered it wiser not to take part in the meetings and wished thereby to underline that could in no way whatever associate itself with any conclusions reached. France, the statement continued, wished for a peaceful, that is, a negotiated, settlement of the problems of Vietnam and of the former Indochina as a whole, on the basis of the 1954 Geneva Agreements. When such a settlement became possible, it would gladly give its support, but in the meantime France could only reaffirm its views which it had held for years. (Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 24–31, 1965 [Vol. 14], p. 20876.)Google Scholar

3 SEATO Newsletter, 07 1966 (Vol. 1, No. 7), pp. 12Google Scholar; SEATO Record, 08 1966 (Vol. 5, No. 4), pp. 25Google Scholar; Department of State Bulletin, 08 1, 1966 (Vol. 55, No. 1414) pp. 172175Google Scholar; and Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 09 3–10, 1966 (Vol. 15), pp. 2159821599.Google Scholar

4 For the text see Department of State Bulletin, 02 28, 1966 (Vol. 54, No. 1392), p. 305.Google Scholar

5 SEATO Record, 06 1965 (Vol. 4, No. 3), p. 26Google Scholar; and Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 07 24–31, 1965 (Vol. 14), p. 20877Google Scholar.

6 SEATO Record, 08 1966 (Vol. 5, No. 4), p. 6Google Scholar; and Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 09 3–10, 1966 (Vol. 15), p. 21599Google Scholar.

7 SEATO Record, 12 1965 (Vol. 4, No. 6), pp. 1415.Google Scholar

8 Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 09 3–10, 1966 (Vol. 15), p. 21599Google Scholar.