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Assembly President proposes to attach WEU Treaty, with its Article 5 and commitment on collective defence, to the new EU Treaty, as a protocol to which member States may sign up if they so wish

Paris, 05/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - In his first "Letter from the President" (that he will be sending to deputies on a regular basis to share his impressions with them), the President of the Assembly of the Western European Union - The Interparliamentary European Security and Defence Assembly, Jan Dirk Blaauw, deplores what he considers to be an impasse in ESDP development. The question of collective defence in Europe is "a thorny subject" as one can see from discussions within the European...