This extract from minutes of the 224th meeting of the Council of Western European Union (WEU), meeting on 2 May 1963, communicates the decision taken by the Council concerning Recommendation 83 on the state of European security and a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) nuclear force. Since this is a delicate and complicated matter, the Council informs the Assembly that the Recommendation has been transmitted to NATO. The Chairman of the WEU Council also notes that a draft reply by the United Kingdom delegation has been circulated as WPM (315).