04/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - After a visit to Washington, the Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Western European Union Assembly, Dieter Schloten said that "the US is listening to its European allies and partners and is seeking with them the best way of handling current security issues" but that "there seems to be a misunderstanding that Europeans would be willing to engage solely in low-intensity military operations and peacekeeping missions and we need to rectify this". He pointed out that the US discussion partners gave their assurance that NATO's Response Force proposed by the United States would be complementary to the European Headline Goal and in no way duplicate European efforts to field crisis management forces.