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Baghdad Pact
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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The sixth session of the Council of the Baghdad Pact, meeting on the ministerial level, was held in Karachi January 26–28, 1959. In its communique issued following the meeting the Council reaffirmed the value of the pact for defensive military cooperation as well as economic and technical cooperation in raising living standards. The statement said that the greater part of the meeting had been devoted to a frank exchange of views on the international situation. The Council agreed that more use should be made of regular meetings of the Council of Deputies at the headquarters of the pact for the sake of political solidarity. The offer of the United Kingdom government to equip a new nuclear center for training in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy was welcomed by the Council; it was decided that the center should be located in Teheran. As pointed out by one source, no reference was made in the communique either to the situation in Iraq or to Iraq's association with the pact.
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- International Organizations: Summary of Activities III. Political and Regional Organizations
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- Copyright © The IO Foundation and Cambridge University Press 1959
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1 The New York Times, January 28, 1959Google Scholar; and The Times (London), January 27, 1959.Google Scholar
2 The Times (London), January 29, 1959.Google Scholar
3 Ibid., March 6, 1959; for information on the July 1958 declaration, see International Organization, Autumn 1958 (Vol. 12, No. 4), p. 548–549.Google Scholar
4 The Times (London), March 25 and 26, 1959.Google Scholar
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