Brussels, 26/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - The last session of the European Security and Defence Assembly (ESDA) of the WEU (Western European Union) will be held in Paris on Tuesday 30 November till Thursday 2 December, at the WEU seat in Paris, Palais d'Iéna. Items on the agenda of the session include the recent developments of common security and defence policy (CSDP). Many well-known political figures are expected to attend, including Prime Minister Yves Leterme on behalf of the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council and of the WEU, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini whose country will be holding the incoming WEU presidency, Hungarian Ambassador to NATO Istvan Kovacs for the future Hungarian EU presidency as well as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his French counterpart, Michèle Alliot-Marie, and the British minister for international security strategy, Gerald Howarth. Members of the Assembly will also make proposals on implementation of the Lisbon Treaty and on interparliamentary follow-up of CSDP after dissolution of the Assembly following the renunciation in April this year of the Brussels Treaty by ten WEU member states (see EUROPE 10111). Examination of the interparliamentary monitoring possibilities for this policy will be continued, with a view to a possible decision on setting up a new parliamentary control body (composed of national MPs and MEPs), during the meeting of the presidents of national parliaments on 4 and 5 April. Several proposals are currently on the table: - the first springs from the Italian parliament (a permanent interparliamentary conference), the second from the French Senate, and two others are to be submitted by the Belgian parliament and the Bundestag. Contacted by EUROPE, the vice-president of the Belgian Senate responsible for finding a solution, Armand de Decker, nonetheless stressed that every proposal looked at will be in line with the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty. The Treaty Protocol (Article 10) provides, inter alia, for interparliamentary conferences on specific themes such as CSDP or CSFP. (A.By./transl.jl)