The Foreign and Defence Ministers of the WEU countries, who first of all numbered 21 and then 28 in Porto, at the meeting chaired by Jaime Gama, adopted a "Porto Declaration" which stresses the profound impact that the development of European Security and Defence Policy will have for the Western European (for the work of the Council, see EUROPE of 15 and 16 May, pages 4 and 5, and 17 May, pages 4-8). We give below the full text of the Declaration, which marks the WEU's transition to a new...