On 18 November 1975, the Secretariat-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates a draft reply from the WEU Council to Assembly Recommendation 264 on the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The proposed amendment from the French delegation concerning the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) outlines that all the member countries of the Council, whether or not they have signed the treaty, hold firmly to the principle of non-proliferation. But the other delegations in the working group emphasise that France is the only WEU Member State not to have signed the NPT.