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13 SEATO Rec. 1 (1974)

handle is hein.weaties/seatorcd0013 and id is 1 raw text is: Sunthorn unveils the new structure of the AUSTRALIA CONTENT WITH NEW SEATO ARRANGEMENTS T HE Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Gough Whitlam, said in Bangkok on 1 February, that his govern- ment is content with the new arrangements for SEATO. We have no objection to the Manila Treaty, he said, the preamble to which expresses views and principles which were and still are valid-such matters as economic development and so- cial justice. But, he went on, the SEATO organization empha- sised an aspect which no longer is relevant. SEATO arose out of the Dulles policy of military con- South-East Asia Treaty Organization FOLLOWING the major de- cisions of the New York Council Meeting in Septem- ber last year, the structure of the SEATO headquarters organization has been exten- sively re-arranged. The in- ter-governmental negotiating structure-the SEATO Coun- cil, Council Representatives, Military Advisers and their representatives - remains unaltered. From I February 1974 SEATO will comprise four offices: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY- GENERAL (OSG): responsible for co-ordination, protocol, confer- ences, liaison with national dele- gates, information and security. OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (OA): An integrated administrative office for all personnel, military and civil, with sections for Adminis- tration, Central Services, Tran- sport, Finance, Personnel and the SEATO Library. OFFICE OF SECURITY AF- FAIRS (OSA): Headed by the third- ranking officer in the Secretariat, currently retired Police General Chamras Mandukananda, this office is primarily responsible for pro- viding SEATO assistance to the se- curity/development programmes of Thailand and the Philippines. The office is organized in three sec- tions: Intelligence and InsurgencyAna- lysis Division (IIAD): this section will study and identify the changing targets, techniques and tactics of subversive and insurgent campaigns and attempt to establish their root causes. It may recommend possible CSI action to the regional member countries. Advisory and Training Division (ATD): is to provide advice and expertise on CSI training, including audio-visual and information as- pects. Exercise Planning and Support Division (EPSD): will plan and pre- pare exercises and provide the spe- cialist expertise required in the support role for exercises. It will also revise SEATO publications and docurients and provide the co-or- dination necessary for standardiza- tion matters. OFFICE OF SOCIAL AND ECO- NOMIC AFFAIRS (OSEA): respon- sible for planning and implementing a programme designed to supple- ment national efforts towards eco- nomic and educational development. The office is divided into two sec- tions: Economic - to identify and im- plement annually the various pro- jects of SEATO assistance of re- SEATO's new Deputy Sec'retary- General, Brigadier General Antonio Venadas of the Philippines - the first military officer to hold the post in the integratedmilitary/civi- lian organization. levance to security and development, community development and civic action. Education--to assist the develop- ment of primary, general and voca- tional education in the regional member countries, and to advise on minority and hilltribe educational problems. The Military Planning, Public In- formation and Research Offices of the previous organization have been abolished. Some personnel have been absorbed within the new offices, but overall there will be a reduction in staff. This will amount to a cut from 38 to 11 in the case of military officers and of 36 to 23 for the civil interna- tional staff. SEATO Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Sunthorn Hongladarom an- nounced the new framework at a press conference on 26 November. Decisions were taken at the Eigh- teenth Council Meeting in New York on 28 September with a view to re- organizing the South-East Asia Treaty Organization to ensure SEA- TO's programmes wereappropriate to the new situation in the Treaty Area, he said. Neither then nor now is there any proposal to alter the SEATO Treaty, that is the South- East Asia Collective Defence Trea- ty. The effect of the decisions ta- ken in New York, he said, will be broadly to: 0 Increase support for the inter- nal security and development programmes of the Philippines and Thailand; * Continue and even increase mul- tilateral or bilateral social and economic aid by SEATO mem- bers; * Integrate civil and military staff; * Reduce military activities; * Reduce civil and military staffs, particularly military. As a first step in integrating the civil and military elements, Mr. Sunthorn said, the SEATO Deputy Secretary-Generalship, on the com- pletion of the term of Mr. Robert Hyslop of Australia on 12 Novem- ber, had passed to the former Chief of the Military Planning Office, Brigadier General Antonio N. Ve- nadas of the Philippines. Military planning The suspension of military tainment of the People's Republic of China. That doctrine long ceased to have any validity ...... My Government came to office and the New Zealand Government, at the same time, resolved to dismantle the residual elements of that doctrine as embodied in SEATO. We spent some months in consulting with the surviving members of the Manila Treaty on this issue and the result was the new arrangements which were made in New York between the various Foreign Ministers last,/ September. My Government is content with the new arrange- ments.... consummated within the last week. 0 planning, Mr. Sunthorn explained, will mean that the existing plans will not be subjected to constant scrutiny and updating as previously. But they will not be abandoned. The 18th Council Meeting recom- mended that current military plan- ning activitiesshould be suspended until such time as otherwise direct- ed. In the event of outside ag- gression against the treaty area, the plans could be quickly reacti- vated and revised should the Mili- tary Advisers so advise the SEATO Council, Mr. Sunthorn said. Exercises to continue Member countries, the Secre- tary-General continued, agree in principle to continue joint military exercises under the aegis ofSEATO. They appreciate the benefits these exercises offer in terms, forexam- pie, of standardizing war materials and communications equipment. Detente and rapprochement, the Secretary-General said, indicate that open military aggression is no longer as imminent as it seemed some years ago. But he said there was no evidence to suggest that external assistance to subversion and insurgency in the region is declining. SEATO's activities inthe countersubversion and insurgency field should at least be maintained and possibly increased, he said. Seato Record to be discontinued This issue of SEATO Record will be the last. The journal has been published regularly since 1961, first as a magazine and, since August 1972 in a ta- bloid newspaper format. Six issues were published yearly until 1973, when the Record became a quarterly. The decision to discontinue pub- lication follows the disbandment of the SEATO Public Information Office. Within the reorganized SEATO, information activities will be the responsibility of an officer within the Office of the Secretary-General. Inquiries relevant to SEATO publicity should in future be addressed to: The Information Officer, Office of the Secretary- General, South East Asia Treaty Or- ganization, P.O. Box 517, Bangkok, Thailand.

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