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Southeast Asian Defense Treaty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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On September 8, 1954, representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, France, the Philippines, Thailand, Pakistan, Australia and New Zealand signed the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, a protocol designating the areas to which the treaty was to apply, and the Pacific Charter, a declaration setting forth the aims of the eight countries in southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. Negotiations leading up to the actual signature of the treaty had been underway throughout the summer of 1954 and had culminated in an eight-power conference in Manila which opened on September 6.
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1 For the texts of these three documents, see the Documents Section in this issue, p. 617.
2 The following summary is based on information appearing in the New York Times and The Times of London.
3 Prior to the conclusion of the treaty, the proposed defense arrangement was commonly called SEATO, standing for the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. After the treaty had been drawn up and it became clear that the implied analogy to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was not valid, the initials SEATO persisted.