Telegram from Maurice Couve de Murville on France’s decision to leave the NATO integrated military structures (Paris, 15 March 1966)

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On 15 March 1966, following France’s announcement that it intends to withdraw its forces from the integrated command of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville sends a telegram to France’s diplomatic representatives in which he gives instructions on how to reply to any questions from the other NATO Member States, particularly on the fact that the country has chosen to withdraw just as the organisation is planning reforms, that France has presented its allies with a fait accompli or that it is breaching the 1949 treaty, rendering it void and compromising the plan for a united Europe.

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Source: M. Couve de Murville, Ministre des Affaires étrangères, à différents représentants diplomatiques de la France à l'étranger: Paris, 15 mars 1966, T. Strictement réservé. Dans: Ministère des Affaires étrangères. Commission de publication des documents diplomatiques français. Documents diplomatiques français: 1966, Tome I, 1er janvier-31 mai. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 2006. Numéro du document 176. pp. 442-446.

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