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	Western European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a result of the failure of the European Defence Community on October 23, 1954 the WEU was established with the incorporation of the then West Germany and Italy.
		The Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU is composed of the delegations of the member states to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which, fearful for its future existence with the winding up of the WEU, has been lobbying for itself to be recognised as the "European Security and Defence Assembly".
		The Petersberg tasks, declared by the WEU in 1992, were incorporated in 1997 into the treaty of Amsterdam of the EU, forming the basis of the European Security and Defence Policy which frames a common policy to deal with humanitarian and rescue, peacekeeping and tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peacemaking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/WEU (790 words)

	NATO Handbook: The Western European Union (WEU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the signature of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949, the exercise of the military responsibilities of the Brussels Treaty Organisation or Western Union was transferred to the North Atlantic Alliance.
		The WEU, in its "Declaration on the Role of Western European Union and its Relations with the European Union and with the Atlantic Alliance", adopted by WEU Ministers on 22 July 1997, took note of the parts of the Treaty of Amsterdam pertaining to the WEU.
		In the second WEU Maastricht Declaration of 1991, the WEU invited states which were members of the EU to accede to WEU, on conditions to be agreed in accordance with Article XI of the modified Brussels Treaty, or to become observers.
	www.nato.int /docu/handbook/2001/hb1504.htm (1551 words)

	weu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The WEU was established under the Modified Brussels Treaty, in response to the failure of the European Defence Community treaty.
		The Parliamentary Assembly of the WEU is composed of the delegations of the member states to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which, fearful for its future existence with the winding up of the WEU, has been lobbying for itself to be recognized as the "European Security and Defence Assembly".
		The Secretary-General of the WEU is Javier Solana, who is also Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /WEU.html (224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU was created by the Treaty on Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence signed at Brussels on 17 March 1948 (the Brussels Treaty), as amended by the Protocol signed at Paris on October 23, 1954, which modified and completed it.
		WEU is composed of an intergovernmental policy-making Council and an Assembly of parliamentary representatives, as well as a number of subsidiary bodies set up by the Council to facilitate its work.
		The WEU Presidency is rotated between full members on a six-monthly basis (the duration of the WEU Presidency was reduced from one year to six months in 1993).
	www.unesco.org /archives/guide/uk/weu/historique.html (1470 words)

	WEU Secretary General Jose Cutileiro's Address to 1998 NATO Workshop, Vienna, Austria
		WEU participates actively in the force planning process with regard to the specific requirements of its future operations.
		WEU and NATO are working hard on the issue of crisis scenarios that would employ WEU and NATO capacities in operations ranging from the lower to the higher end of the Petersberg scale.
		WEU is ready, and putting it to work does not require further institutional engineering, a full-fledged EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, or further advances in the establishment of ESDI within NATO.
	www.csdr.org /98Book/cutileiro98.htm (1232 words)

	Chronology of Events (WEU Documentary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU also announced that it would place almost 5 000 troops, together with transport and logistical equipment, at the immediate disposal of the United Nations.
		The North Atlantic Council and the WEU Council hold their first joint session on the surveillance operations for enforcement of the embargo, conducted by WEU and NATO in the Adriatic since June 1992.
		Following the signature of memoranda of understanding between WEU and each of the Danuabe states in order to optimise monitoring of the embargo against Serbia and Montenegro, the WEU mission is based at a co-ordination centre at Calafat, Romania.
	www.cco.caltech.edu /~bosnia/doc/weudoc.html (7450 words)

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		As is known, the Council of WEU worked out its intentions on enlargement in Part III of the Petersberg declaration of 19th June 1992, providing basic guidelines for relations between WEU and other European states, whether members of the European Union or of the Atlantic Alliance.
		In fact, the WEU Council has strongly encouraged the Assembly to grant as many rights as possible to parliamentary representatives from states which are associate members of, or observers in, WEU in order to enable them to participate fully in the Assembly's activities.
		Conclusions As a consequence of the WEU Council's decisions on enlargement, the creation of the status of associate member state and observer state and the establishment of a forum of consultation, the Assembly is obliged to revise its policy regarding parliamentary representatives from non-WEU member states having a specific relationship with WEU.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/a-weu/document/1360polc.war (5491 words)

	BITS EU Russia Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU is an organisation which was set up in 1948 for the purposes of cooperation on defence and security.
		The Treaty on European Union raised WEU to the rank of an "integral part of the development of the Union", while preserving its institutional autonomy, and gave it the task of elaborating and implementing decisions and actions which have defence implications.
		In their Maastricht Declaration of 10 December 1991, the WEU Member States invited the European countries that were members of NATO but not of the European Union to become associate members of WEU.
	www.bits.de /NRANEU/EuropeanSecurity/WEU-Facts.htm (444 words)

	Assembly of WEU : Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In diplomatic terms the process being supervised by France, which took on the dual presidency of the EU and WEU on 1 July 2000, is referred to as the “integration of WEU in the EU”.
		It was at France’s insistence that Germany acceded to WEU in 1955.
		He argues repeatedly for the expertise WEU has acquired to be put to good use and for the WEU Assembly to be given a new lease of life as the “European Security and Defence Assembly”.
	www.assemblee-ueo.org /en/presse/articles/2000/3.html (979 words)

	WEU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS 11-12 May 1998
		Ministers warmly welcomed the co-operation between WEU and the EU in Albania and in particular, as far as the PHARE programme is concerned, the exchange of letters between Commissioner Van de Broek and the Secretary-General of WEU, dated 23 December 1997 and 16 January 1998 respectively.
		WEU is an essential element of the development of the ESDI within the Alliance.
		WEU supports the OSCE role in European security as an organization specializing in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation, in setting norms and principles for the behaviour of States, and in creating an integrative and flexible framework for cooperative security and co-operation among different organisations and institutions.
	www.hri.org /MFA/thesis/spring98/weu-rhodes.html (4344 words)

	A Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union --W--
		The relationship of the WEU to NATO is ambivalent.
		Historically, Britain's attachment to NATO and scepticism over the WEU have been both a bulwark of the Atlantic Alliance and a microcosm of the long-running debate about whether the EU is to become a federal state or to remain a confederation of independent democracies.
		Washington was concerned lest the WEU develop less as a welcome burden-sharing arm within NATO than as a rival, duplicating costs and sowing confusion - after all, France remained even now outside NATO's integrated command structure (in the Gulf War, French airborne capabilities were crippled by not being networked into the allies' enemy-recognition system).
	www.euro-know.org /dictionary/w.html (2888 words)

	EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The WEU noted that its Multinational Advisory Police Element (MAPE) in Albania was contributing to stability in the region and said it had instructed the Permanent Council to consider further possible areas for cooperation with the Albanian authorities.
		In this context, the statement said, the WEU would be ready to examine whether any further contributions were appropriate "for example in the field of military training and restructuring of the Albanian armed forces".
		The WEU ministers reiterated their conviction that NATO continued to be the basis for collective defence and remained the essential forum for consultation among allies.
	www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/1998/May/nflash0513a.html (537 words)

	EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU Secretary-General Jose Cutilheiro, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana as well as EU Commissioner responsible for foreign affairs Hans van den Broek will be among the participants at the meeting, the first hosted by Greece as the holder of the cur rent rotating six-month presidency.
		Issues to be discussed by 56 foreign and defense ministers from WEU member-states, associate members and observer states include the organization's role and prospects after the Amsterdam and Madrid summits, the WEU's role in the management of crises and upgrading its operational capabilities.
		The WEU will gradually, on the basis of that defined by the Amsterdam Treaty, become the defense arm of the European Union while at the same time it constitutes the European pillar of the North Atlantic alliance.
	www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/1998/May/nflash0511.html (589 words)

	EUROPEAN UNION - Selected instruments taken from Treaties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU Member States agree to strengthen the role of WEU, in the longer term perspective of a common defence policy within the European Union which might in time lead to a common defence, compatible with that of the Atlantic Alliance.
		Representation on the WEU Council must be such that the Council is able to exercise its functions continuously in accordance with Article VIII of the modified Brussels Treaty.Member States may draw on a double hatting formula, to be worked out, consisting of their representatives to the Alliance and to the European Union.
		WEU notes that, in accordance with the provisions of Article J.4(6) concerning the common foreign and security policy of the Treaty on European Union, the Union will decide to review the provisions of this Article with a view to furthering the objective to be set by it in accordance with the procedure defined.
	europa.eu.int /abc/obj/treaties/en/entr4b.htm (1575 words)

	EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FACT SHEETS - 6.1.3. Common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the WEU
		The European Council made it clear that the integration of the WEU into the EU institutional framework was not necessary, despite the fact that it was foreseen in the Amsterdam Treaty; rather, those functions that the WEU assumed in the field of Petersberg tasks would be included in the EU.
		At the WEU Assembly's Special Session in Lisbon in March 2000, a proposal was launched to create a European Security and Defence Assembly (ESDA), which would monitor the activities of the EU security bodies from the perspective of national parliamentarians.
		The meetings of the Council of Ministers of the WEU in Oporto in May 2000 and in Marseille in November 2000 paved the way for the transfer to the EU of the WEU functions required for performing Petersberg tasks.
	www.europarl.eu.int /factsheets/6_1_3_en.htm (1768 words)

	WEU Dep. Secretary General Horst Holthoff...The Role of WEU in the New European Security
		WEU soon stated that it was "prepared to support, on a case by case basis and in accordance with WEU procedures, the effective implementation of crisis management measures, including peacekeeping activities of the [then] CSCE or the United Nations Security Council."
		And through their participation in WEU activities and planning they learn more of our day to day work and help build the community of interests that is the indispensable basis of European integration.
		WEU should be capable of conducting Petersberg type missions at the lower end of the spectrum by the end of the year.
	www.csdr.org /96Book/Holthoff.htm (2085 words)

	Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU PA)
		In order to participate in the two annual sessions of the WEU Parliamentary Assembly, an ad hoc observer delegation consisting of two members of the Folketing is appointed on the basis of a specific assessment of the current agenda.
		The WEU Parliamentary Assembly is the inter-parliamentary forum for the Western European Union.
		The Assembly consists of 370 parliamentarians from 28 WEU countries, of which ten are full members of the WEU while the rest are observers, associate members or associate partners.
	www.folketinget.dk /baggrund/engelske_tekster/weu.htm (352 words)

	Western European Union. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After France had refused to ratify a treaty providing for a European Defense Community, the WEU was created as a substitute solution embodied in the Paris Pacts.
		In 1960, the WEU transferred its cultural and social activities to the Council of Europe.
		Under the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the WEU was envisioned as the future military arm of the European Union (EU); it remained institutionally autonomous.
	www.bartleby.com /65/we/WestrnEU.html (282 words)

	A New Gear in the CFSP Machinery: Integration of the Petersberg Tasks in the Treaty on European Union
		When the Union avails itself of the WEU to elaborate and implement decisions of the Union on the tasks referred in paragraph 2 all Member States of the Union shall be entitled to participate fully in the tasks in question.
		WEU and NATO are also discussing possible practical arrangements which would allow the participation of WEU Observers, which are not NATO members, in operations in which the WEU makes use of NATO assets and capabilities, for instance the Combined Joint Task Forces model.
		The case of the involvement of these states in WEU activities upon the request of the European Union was already foreseen in that document: `Member States of the European Union, which have accepted the invitation to become observers...
	www.ejil.org /journal/Vol9/No4/art5-04.html (589 words)

	WEU Ministerial Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WEU is thus establishing itself as a genuine framework for dialogue and cooperation among Europeans on wider European security and defence issues.
		WEU affirms that this identity will be grounded on sound military principles and supported by appropriate military planning and will permit the creation of militarily coherent and effective forces capable of operating under the political control and strategic direction of WEU.
		WEU has already worked out Preliminary Conclusions on the Formulation of a Common European Defence Policy which is an initial contribution on the objectives, scope and means of a common European defence policy.
	www.esteri.it /mae2000/eng/archives/arch_events/weu/decweuen.htm (2057 words)

	NATO Handbook: NATO-WEU Cooperation
		Arrangements made for cooperation between NATO and the WEU from 1991 to 2000 laid the groundwork for the development of a strategic partnership between NATO and the European Union.
		In practice these arrangements were designed to ensure that if a crisis arose in which the WEU decided to intervene (and the Alliance chose not to), it could request the use of Alliance assets and capabilities, possibly including a CJTF headquarters, for conducting an operation under its own political control and strategic direction.
		Conditions for their transfer to the WEU, as well as for monitoring their use and for their eventual return or recall, would be registered in a specific agreement between the two organisations.
	www.nato.int /docu/handbook/2001/hb0402.htm (370 words)

	WEU Ministerial Council, Oporto, 16 May 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ministers agreed that WEU stood ready to support, as required, the development of the functions identified by the EU as being necessary to fulfil its new responsibilities in the field of the Petersberg tasks.
		Ministers welcomed the approval of the WEU framework for drafting a document on the status of forces to be used in the event of WEU operations, which does not impose a model for such arrangements but provides a useful framework to assist and guide case-by-case decisions.
		This commitment demonstrates that implementation of the decisions taken by the European Union at Cologne and Helsinki, with regard to the strengthening of European defence capabilities, is contributing to the credibility of the European security and defence policy and the vitality of the Atlantic Alliance.
	www.cesd.org /eu/weuporto.htm (2111 words)

	José Cutileiro
		WEU, however, is not an alternative to NATO and does not seek to duplicate NATO's structures.
		WEU observers (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and Sweden) will be able to participate fully and on an equal footing in planning and decision making in WEU when EU avails itself of WEU.
		WEU is now looking forward to being involved throughout the NATO defense planning cycle, with due account taken of the work done within WEU on the principles and modalities for such involvement, especially regarding WEU's requirements for Petersberg tasks.
	www.csdr.org /97Book/CUTILE9.HTM (1529 words)

	WEU Council of Ministers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They also recalled the role of WEU as defence component of the EU and as a means to strengthen the European pillar of the Atlantic Alliance and the priority which they therefore attached to the development of its operational capabilities.
		The document, based on an Italian/United Kingdom proposal on the principles and modalities for establishing a WEU Humanitarian Task Force and on the use of military assets in humanitarian crises, is fully consistent with the above decision in paragraphÝ3.
		Ministers reiterated the importance they attach to the WEU contribution to the EU Mostar Administration, and to the Danube and SHARP GUARD operations, which are visible expressions of WEU's commitment to European security.
	www.cesd.org /eu/weulisb.htm (2664 words)

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