Brussels, 27/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - Further to an agreement reached between the three main European political families, Armand De Decker, from Belgium, will be appointed on 2 December as President of the Western European Union Assembly - The European Interparliamentary Assembly on Security and Defence. He will remain President of the Belgian Senate. He will succeed Marcel Glesner from Luxembourg. Mr De Decker, who is 55, has already been a member of this Assembly where he has held several posts, mainly that of Chairman of the Defence Committee and Vice-President of the WEU Assembly. He has been President of the Belgian Senate since 1999. He has written many reports including that to be used as a basis for revitalising WEU in 1984. Armand De Decker has always supported the development of an autonomous European defence policy which is complementary to NATO, and which, in his eyes, is indispensable. He has always ensured that the control and the interparliamentary framework of European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is consolidated, an press release from the Assembly states. The Assembly of the WEU, created by the Treaty of Brussels and amended in 1954, will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year.