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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.

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

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, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32697/seato-ministerial-council (accessed 14 June 2026).

Story by Gerald Hensley, published 16 April 2012.