On 17 May 1955, Pierre Baraduc, Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sends a telegram to French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay in which he discusses the decision taken on 7 May 1955 by the Council of Western European Union (WEU) to establish a Standing Armaments Committee (SAC) and the possibility that the national permanent representatives to the Committee could also be members of their delegation to NATO. To create a link between the two organisations and to avoid duplicating roles and increasing costs for the delegation, Pierre Baraduc advises that Engineer-General Bron, who is already France’s representative to the NATO Defence Production Committee, should be appointed as the French representative to the WEU SAC.