On 8 May 1981, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the WEU Council’s final reply to Assembly Recommendation 358 on the future of European security. The document incorporates most of the French proposals made in the draft reply (WPM(81)7). The Council emphasises that the coordination of WEU member countries’ policies is one of the reasons for the Council’s existence. Furthermore, it does not see the need for the systematic convening of meetings of the WEU Council before those of the North Atlantic Council. Finally, it rejects the Assembly’s request to set up a working group to examine the measures to be taken to adapt WEU to the present requirements of European defence.