On 27 January 1992, in Bonn, at a meeting of the Chiefs of the General Staff of the Member States of Western European Union (WEU), the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, outlines the main decisions taken at the Rome Summit of the Atlantic Alliance and the Maastricht European Council. He places particular emphasis on WEU's role as a defence component of the European Union and as a bridge between the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance.