SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
NGO | Defunct
1954 CE to 1977 CE
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This is the period of pacts directed against the Soviet Union.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization are supposed to contain the Soviet Union in the west and east.
The Baghdad Pact, bringing into alliance Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq, is supposed to do the same on the Soviet Union's southern borders.
The British government is attempting to force Egypt to join the alliance by refusing to discuss evacuation of the Suez Canal base until Egypt agrees.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization are supposed to contain the Soviet Union in the west and east.
The Baghdad Pact, bringing into alliance Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq, is supposed to do the same on the Soviet Union's southern borders.
The British government is attempting to force Egypt to join the alliance by refusing to discuss evacuation of the Suez Canal base until Egypt agrees.
Egypt, however, will discuss only evacuation and eventual administration of the base, and the British slowly realized the drawbacks of holding the base without Egyptian acquiescence.
By October 1954, Nasser signs an agreement providing for the withdrawal of all British troops from the base within twenty months, with the provision that the British base can be reactivated in the event of an attack on Egypt by an outside power or an Arab League state or an attack on Turkey.
By October 1954, Nasser signs an agreement providing for the withdrawal of all British troops from the base within twenty months, with the provision that the British base can be reactivated in the event of an attack on Egypt by an outside power or an Arab League state or an attack on Turkey.