On 15 November 1962, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the final reply by the Council to Recommendation 77 by the WEU Parliamentary Assembly on the future organisation of Western defence on the executive and parliamentary levels. The Council shares the Assembly’s opinion that any future European defence body would contribute to the strengthening of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), but it believes that it would be unwise at present to make any predictions about a future political union. The Council has also communicated the Recommendation to the North Atlantic Council.