The final meeting of the Ministerial Council (26–8 January 1959) and Iraq’s withdrawal from the pact (24 March 1959)

After the London meeting in July 1958, the first formal and private meetings of the council of deputies, without Iraq, were held in Ankara in October 1958, and during these meetings it was agreed to hold the sixth session of the Baghdad Pact Ministerial Council in Karachi in January 1959. As the Karachi meeting approached, the three remaining Moslem members of the pact began to press the United States to give more support to the pact and more military and economic aid to themselves. There were many expressions of dissatisfaction.