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Central Treaty Organization

security. Also CENTO, Baghdad Pact

A Cold War defence alliance formed in 1955 as the Baghdad Pact by Turkey, Iraq, the United Kingdom, Pakistan and Iran. The United States backed it and took part in its committees but never became a full member. After Iraq left in 1959 it was renamed the Central Treaty Organization, with its headquarters in Ankara. It never had a unified military command, and it was dissolved in 1979.^1,2,3

Linked from 4 pages across CUPA.

Sources

1. 1 The Baghdad Pact becomes the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO). NATO, 1959-08-19. Official
2. 2 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, Volume XII, chapter 3. US Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary document
3. 3 Communist Containment in the Middle East: Emergence of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Reference