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SEATO Ministerial Council

SEATO Ministerial Council

Prime Minister Keith Holyoake (third from right) chairs a Ministerial Council of SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization) in Wellington in 1968. In 1954 New Zealand had been a founding member of SEATO, which was designed to block communist advances in the region.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1968/1428/20A

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Gerald Hensley, 'Cold War - Beyond Europe, 1949 to 1955', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/32697/seato-ministerial-council (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Gerald Hensley, published 20 Jun 2012