On 1 June 1965, the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) adopts Recommendation 121 on defence outside the NATO area. Realising that the interests of the WEU countries extend outside the area of Europe and the structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Assembly recommends to the WEU Council that it review the individual military commitments outside Europe of the nations within the Brussels Treaty so as to establish which of them are in the interests of all Member States and to what extent.