Sold – President Dwight D. Eisenhower Appoints His Ambassador to Pakistan to Negotiate a Treaty
It would prove to be the first U.S./Pakistan Treaty of Friendship and Commerce.
The United States and Pakistan established diplomatic relations in 1947. The U.S. willingness to provide economic and military assistance to Pakistan and the latter’s partnership in the Baghdad Pact/CENTO and SEATO strengthened relations between the two nations. The next step was to consider a formal U.S./Pakistan treaty.
Document Signed as President,...
The United States and Pakistan established diplomatic relations in 1947. The U.S. willingness to provide economic and military assistance to Pakistan and the latter’s partnership in the Baghdad Pact/CENTO and SEATO strengthened relations between the two nations. The next step was to consider a formal U.S./Pakistan treaty.
Document Signed as President, Washington, January 13, 1955, giving U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Horace A. Hildreth, authority “to meet and confer with any person or persons duly authorized by the Government of Pakistan…to negotiate, conclude and sign a treaty of friendship and commerce and a related protocol.”
The document is countersigned by John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State. It took four years to hammer out the details of an agreement, but the U.S. and Pakistan Friendship and Commerce Treaty, with protocol, was signed at Washington on November 12, 1959. It came into force on February 12, 1961. In proclaiming the treaty, President Eisenhower stated, “The United States of America and Pakistan, desirous of strengthening the bonds of peace and friendship traditionally existing between them and of encouraging closer economic and cultural relations between their peoples…have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Friendship and Commerce, based in general upon the principles of national and most-favored-nation treatment unconditionally accorded…”
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