On 27 November 1974, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the final reply by the WEU Council to Assembly Recommendation 253 on a European policy on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The Council welcomes the efforts made to promote some convergence of national policies on the peaceful use of nuclear energy through regular meetings in European cooperation forums. But it also emphasises the fact that the main guarantee of European independence in the nuclear field lies not in reactors but in supplies of uranium and in the means of enriching it.