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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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A communiqué issued by the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on May 7, 1959, expressed the Council's opinion that, on the eve of the Geneva conference of foreign ministers, the Soviet Union appeared to be misinterpreting western intentions in proceeding with the orderly development of their program for modernizing the forces of the alliance. The Council noted further that these programs for improving NATO defences were the consequence of long established NATO policies which were arrived at through joint decisions of NATO countries; moreover, they had been in the process of implementation for over two years, and therefore they could not conceivably be designed, as alleged by the Soviet Union, to prejudice the success of the forthcoming meeting in Geneva.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: III. Political and Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1959

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References

1 NATO Letter, 06 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 6), p. 910Google Scholar. For information on previous activities of NATO, see International Organization, Summer 1959 (Vol. 13. No. 3), p. 483484Google Scholar.

2 NATO Letter, 07 1959 (Vol. 7. No. 7), p. 8Google Scholar.

3 Ibid., September 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 9), p. 9.

4 Ibid., July 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 7), p. 27–28.

5 The Times (London), 06 15, 1959Google Scholar.

6 NATO Letter, 06 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 6), p. 19Google Scholar.

7 Ibid., September 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 9), p. 13.

8 Ibid., June 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 6), p. 10–11, 19, 21; July 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 7), p. 8–9; August 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 8), p. 12; and September 1959 (Vol. 7, No. 9), p. 13.