Draft reply by the WEU Council to question 175 put by a member of the Assembly on the improvement of defensive military forces (London, 5 July 1977)

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On 5 July 1977, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the draft reply to question 146 put to the WEU Council by Sir Frederic Bennett, a member of the Assembly. The member asks about the measures that have been taken by the WEU member countries to improve their own defensive military forces in accordance with the decisions taken by the members of the Atlantic Alliance in December 1969. The draft reply, which outlines the various programmes that have been launched to enable the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to meet changing defence needs, incorporates several French amendments. The French delegation wants to emphasise that this question does not concern all the NATO member countries but only those belonging to the military command structure (which France left in 1966).

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Source: Council of the Western European Union. Secretary-general's note. Written question 175 put to the Council by a member of the Assembly. London: 05.07.1977. WPM (77) 16/1. 4 p.

Archives nationales de Luxembourg (ANLux). http://www.anlux.lu. Western European Union Archives. Secretariat-General/Council’s Archives. 1954-1987. Organs of the Western European Union. Year: 1977, 01/05/1977-30/03/1979. File 202.413.24. Volume 1/1.

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