On 29 June 1967, the Sub-Directorate for the Levant in the French Foreign Ministry draws up speaking notes for the ministerial meeting of the Council of Western European Union (WEU) held on 4 and 5 July in The Hague on the issues surrounding the Middle East crisis. Following the Six-Day War between Israel and a coalition of Arab League states from 5 to 10 June 1967, the Africa–Levant Directorate sets out the French Government’s position on the conflict. It emphasises the fact that lasting peace in the Middle East must be based on solutions that have been freely negotiated between the interested parties, accepted by all parties concerned and enshrined by the international community, particularly by the United Nations (UN). It remarks that the difficult relations between the United States and the USSR on the UN Security Council are not making the situation any easier to resolve. These speaking notes are adopted in full by the minister delegate, André Bettencourt, at the meeting of the WEU Council.