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WEU: see Western European Union Western European Union (WEU), European security and defense organization. It was set up in Brussels in 1955 as a defensive, economic, social, and cultural organization, consisting of Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands; ..... Click the link for more information. . Western European Union (WEU)Association of 10 European countries to coordinate matters of European security and defense. The WEU was formed in 1955 as an outgrowth of the Brussels Treaty of 1948. Composed of Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Britain, it works in cooperation with NATO and the European Union and is administered by a council of the foreign affairs and defense ministers of the member countries. There are also several associate members, observers, and associate partners. It is headquartered in Brussels. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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NATO and WEU air and navy forces were deployed there to ensure implementation of the UN Security Council resolution on imposition of an embargo on arms supplies to the conflict zone and a ban on all flights over the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The WEU has become a link between NATO and the EU, which aspires to a common security vocation of its own. Smaller and weaker state-units, all of them on the waiting list for integration (into EU, WEU and NATO), are likely to be swallowed-up more easily by the global system than larger and more complex states. |
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