Note from the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) on 18 November 1966 to communicate the Council’s final reply to Recommendation 137 of the WEU Parliamentary Assembly on the state of European security, France and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The Council replies in the affirmative to the fact that the Member States are still bound by the obligations of Article V of the modified Brussels Treaty. The Council also notes that the question of the assurance that, in the event of aggression, the French troops deployed in West Germany would be placed under the command of SACEUR is already being studied by the North Atlantic Council.