On 21 November 1978, the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) adopts Recommendation 324 on the limitation of strategic arms, in which it asks the WEU Council to work together to reach agreement on a common defence policy based on nuclear deterrence and to make a coordinated effort to re-establish the true balance of forces between the Atlantic Alliance and the Warsaw Pact. The Assembly recommends that the North Atlantic Council should examine every aspect of the strategic arms limitation talks.