On 10 March 1970, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the final reply by the WEU Council to Assembly Recommendation 189 on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Regarding the signing of the Treaty by the WEU Member States, the Council merely lists the six signatory countries: the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). It does not mention France, the only WEU Member State that has not signed the Treaty. As a depository government , the United Kingdom ratified the NPT on 27 November 1968. The five other WEU Member States are deferring ratification of the Treaty until an agreement on verification procedures has been concluded between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).