The Tashkent Declaration of January 10, 1966 was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan. In September of the year before the two had engaged in the short run 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. Peace had been achieved on September 23 by the intervention of the great powers who pushed the two nations to a cease fire for fears the conflict could escalate and draw in other powers.
A meeting was held in Tashkent in the USSR (now in Uzbekistan) beginning on January 4. 1966 to try to create a more permanent settlement. The Soviets, represented by Premier Kosygin moderated between India Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Muhammad Ayub Khan.
The conference was viewed as a great success and the two declaration that was released was hoped to be a framework for lasting peace. The declaration stated that
- Indian and Pakistani forces would pull back to their pre-conflict positions
- The nations would not interfere in each others internal affairs
- Economic and diplomatic relations would be restored
- The two leaders would work towards building good relations between the two countries.