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Western European Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The first part of the eighth ordinary session of the Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU) took place in Paris from June 4 to 8, 1962. Mr. Arthur Conte (French Socialist) was re-elected President. In addition to the usual reports on defense questions, the Assembly took up the question of the negotiations between the European Common Market and the United Kingdom. On the solution of the Commonwealth problem in the negotiations, the Assembly recommended that special provisions should be worked out to cover a transitional period for imported foodstuffs, especially from the temperate zone. On political union, the Assembly's recommendation proposed that it should take the form of a Community institution, with an executive independent of the member states and responsible to an elected assembly and a ministerial council voting in some cases by qualified majority.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities II. Political and Regional Organizations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1963

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References

1 Council of Europe News, July 1962 (New Series No. 21), p. 5.For a summary of the second part of the seventh ordinary session, see International Organization, Summer 1962 (Vol. 16, No. 3), p. 662.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Idem, January 1963 (New Series No. 24), p.11; Keesing's Contemporary Archives, 1963–1964, 05 4–11, 1963 (Vol. 14), pp. 1939319394Google Scholar