On 4 December 1963, the Assembly of Western European Union (WEU) adopts Recommendation 97 on the state of European security, disarmament and the nuclear force. Given the ongoing arms race, the Assembly requests that each Member State of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) make the achievement of a treaty of general and comprehensive disarmament the overriding aim of its foreign and defence policy. The Assembly also urges the WEU Council to take what steps it can to ensure that a system for the control of nuclear weapons is developed in NATO.