On 30 October 1979, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the WEU Council’s draft reply to Recommendation 334 of the Assembly on various aspects of cooperation between Europe and the United States. The document presents the original Italian proposal and a series of amendments from other delegations, including the French and British delegations, most of which are subsequently taken up in the final version (C (79) 148). The delegations emphasise that regular consultations take place between the Member States of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and consequently between the WEU member countries, which all belong to NATO apart from France. On the matter of the deployment of new nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union, the delegations note that NATO is following this question closely. They also emphasise that the bilateral agreements signed between various WEU members and the United States do not conflict with the achievement of European cooperation in armaments production.