On 18 June 1969, the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) adopts Recommendation 185 on the political implications of the Soviet intervention in the Mediterranean. The Assembly recommends that the WEU Council lend its support to the ‘on-call’ naval force established by the Atlantic Alliance in the Mediterranean and that it continue to concert all necessary action to address the political and military threat represented by the build-up of the Soviet fleet. It also urges the Council, together with the United States and the Soviet Union, to seek means of bringing the armaments race in the Middle East to an end and to work for peace and stability in the region.