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Southeast Asia Treaty organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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Following a three-hour special meeting of the Council of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 12, 1960, a SEATO communique expressed the view, the press reported, that the shipment of heavy arms by the Soviet Union to the rebel forces in Laos would only prolong the crisis in that country. According to the press, however, the chairman of the Council had said that SEATO could not intervene, since all the parties involved in the fighting in Laos were Laotians and not the forces of a foreign nation.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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International Organization , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , Spring 1961 , pp. 330 - 333
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961

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References

1 The New York Times, December 13, 1960. For a summary of previous activities of SEATO, see International Organization, Summer 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 3), p. 488–489CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Laos is under the protection of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization as a “protocol nation” eligible for assistance under the treaty.

3 The New York Times, January 3, 4, and 5, 1961, and The Times (London), 01 4, 1961Google Scholar.

4 The New York Times, March 27, 28, and 30, and April 1, 1961.

5 The New York Times, November 16 and 17, 1960.

6 Ibid., December 25, 1960.

7 Ibid., March 13, 1961.