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Message to the Baghdad Pact Ministerial Council in Karachi.

January 26, 1959

I AM pleased that representatives of the nations associated in the Baghdad Pact are convening today in the Pact's Sixth Ministerial Council Session. I have followed the progress of this regional collective security organization with deep personal interest since its inception. The United States believes the instrumentalities which the member governments have created to carry out the Pact's purposes are making an important contribution to world peace. We are glad to participate in these activities.

I have asked Ambassador Henderson to represent the United States in your deliberations, and upon his return to report personally to the Secretary of State and me.

I send you my warm wishes for a fruitful meeting.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

Note: This message was read at the opening meeting of the Council by Loy W. Henderson, Deputy Under Secretary of State and head of the U.S. Observer Delegation.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Message to the Baghdad Pact Ministerial Council in Karachi. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235269

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