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Kōrero: Cold War

SEATO Ministerial Council

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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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1968/1428/20A

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Gerald Hensley, Cold War – Beyond Europe, 1949 to 1955, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/32697/seato-ministerial-council (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Gerald Hensley, i tāngia i te 16 April 2012.