Tashkent Declaration

Tashkent Declaration
	Muhammad Ayub Khan and Alexei Kosygin at Tashkent during the Tashkent negotiations
Type	Peace treaty
Context	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Signed	10 January 1966
Location	Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union
Mediators	Alexei Kosygin
Signatories	Lal Bahadur Shastri; Muhammad Ayub Khan
Parties	India; Pakistan;
Language	English, Urdu and Hindi

The Tashkent Declaration was signed between India and Pakistan on 10 January 1966 to resolve the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Peace was achieved on 23 September through interventions by the Soviet Union and the United States, both of which pushed the two warring countries towards a ceasefire in an attempt to avoid any escalation that could draw in other powers.^[1]^[2]

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