Information note from the French Embassy (28 June 1971)

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In a note dated 28 June 1971 and circulated on 7 July, the French Embassy notifies the Council of Western European Union (WEU) that the French General Secretariat of National Defence has informed the Embassy that it is not customary in France to give Members of Parliament permits to access classified information and that there is no authority with the power to do so. However, although defence secrets result in special arrangements between the executive and the legislative, solutions have been found for sovereign assemblies so there is no reason why a solution should not also be found for a consultative assembly.

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Source: Council of the Western European Union. Follow-up to the Council's reply to Assembly Recommendation 197 on military security and parliamentary information. Information receveid from the French Assembly, 28th June 1971. 07.07.1971. Copy No 32. 2 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: 1970, 01/06/1970-21/10/1973. File 202.414.22. Volume 1/1.

Copyright: (c) WEU Secretariat General - Secrétariat Général UEO

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