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The Brussels Treaty (17 March 1948)
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| Document type |
Treaty
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Western European Union - Union de l'Europe Occidentale. [ON-LINE]. [Bruxelles]: Union de l'Europe occidentale, [06.10.2000]. Disponible sur http://www.weu.int/index.html.
Archives nationales du Luxembourg, Luxembourg. http://anlux.lu/. Ministère des Affaires étrangères (1732-1998). Ministère des Affaires étrangères - Traités et Conventions. Traité entre la Belgique, la France, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas et le Royaume Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord -s. à Bruxelles, AE TC 365.
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| Keywords |
Brussels Treaty, signature of an agreement, Western Union
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| Copyright |
© WEU Secretariat General - Secrétariat Général UEO
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| Caption |
The Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence, signed in Brussels on 17 March 1948 by France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It enters into force on 25 August 1948. Although this Treaty provides only for ‘cooperation' between the contracting parties, ‘which will be effected through the Consultative Council referred to in Article VII', and it does not provide for the establishment of an international organisation, in practice it leads to the creation of an organisation known as the ‘Brussels Treaty Organisation' or ‘Western Union'.
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| Location in the digital library |
RESEARCH AND TEACHING >> University education >> EU Constitutional Law (Prof. Herwig Hofmann, University of Luxembourg, 2nd edition, 2010) >> II. The European organisations
SPECIAL FILES >> Luxembourg and the European integration process >> Participation in post-war alliances
EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS >> Western European Union
EUROPEAN ORGANISATIONS >> Western European Union >> Origin and development >> The origins of WEU: Western Union
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1950–1956 The formation of the community of Europe >> The organisation of common defence >> Western European Union
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1945–1949 The pioneering phase >> Military cooperation >> Western Union
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| Document extract |
Consult the original document (PDF) Treaty of Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence (Brussels, 17 March 1948)
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Belgium, the President of the French Republic, President of the French Union, Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands and His Majesty The King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Resolved: To reaffirm their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the other ideals proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations; To fortify and preserve the principles of democracy, personal freedom and political liberty, the constitutional traditions and the rule of law, which are their common heritage; To strengthen, with these aims in view, the economic, social and cultural ties by which they are already united; To co-operate loyally and to co-ordinate their efforts to create in Western Europe a firm basis for European economic recovery; To afford assistance to each other, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, in maintaining international peace and security and in resisting any policy of aggression; To take such steps as may be held to be (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Report of the meeting of the five Finance Ministers of Western Union (Brussels, 28 and 29 April 1948)
Background note from the Permanent Commission on Western Union (London, 21 December 1948)
Ratifications and entry into force of the Brussels Treaty (1948)
Cartoon by Illingworth on the establishment of Western Union (4 March 1948)
Report by the Chiefs of Staff on the defence policy of Western Union (London, 25 August 1948)
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