File: weu/press3.94
Subject: Press release - for immediate release

     The WEU Chairmanship-in-Office draws initial
     conclusions from the NATO summit at a meeting
         of the Assembly's Political Committee

Paris, 3rd February 1994 - The Political Committee of the WEU
Assembly met in Paris today with Mr. Peter Stoffelen (Socialist,
Netherlands) in the chair.  The meeting was the first attended
by representatives from Greece and Norway.

The committee heard Ambassador Roger Linster, Permanent
Representative of Luxembourg to the WEU Council, representing
the Luxembourg Chairmanship-in-Office.

Mr. Linster reported on preparations by the WEU Council for
practical implementation by WEU of the decisions taken at the
NATO summit meeting on 10th and 11th January last, and
specifically on the framework of operations and decisions for
the strategic concept of "Combined Joint Task Forces".

The prospects for closer association of the countries of the
Forum of Consultation in the activities of WEU were also the
subject of an in-depth discussion with a view to the decisions
to be reached by the WEU Ministerial Council in Luxembourg on
9th-10th May 1994.

"The important seminar organised by the Polish Parliament for
11th and 12th February will enable us to arrive at a better
definition of this closer association with WEU" stated the
Chairman of the Political Committee, Mr. Stoffelen.