- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- Adopted 24th November
1950, at the conclusion of the Debate on the Third Report of the
Committee on General Affairs (see Doc. AS (2) 151, Report).Number
voting: 109, In favour: 83, Against: 7, Abstentions: 19.
The Assembly,
Recalling its Recommendation AS (2) 52 of 11th August 1950
(no 5 of the
printed Compilation) in the following terms :
"The Assembly,
in order to express its devotion to the maintenance of
peace and its resolve to sustain the action of the Security Council
of the United. Nations in defence of peaceful peoples against aggression,
calls for the immediate creation of a unified European Army, under
the authority of a European Minister of Defence, subject to proper
European democratic control and acting in full co-operation with
the United States and Canada."
Having taken note
of the statement made to it by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs
on the subject of the creation of a European Army;
1. Welcomes the decision of the North Atlantic Treaty
Powers to form a joint Atlantic Force for the defence of Western
Europe, with the full participation of the United States and Canada;
2. Considers that the defence of a territory, which includes
Western Germany, naturally requires German participation, but that
this only conceivable within the framework of a permanent European
Defence organisation ;
3. Emphasises the importance of the principle enunciated in the
statement of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs that no discrimination
must be made between the participating powers ;
4. Reaffirms the necessity for the creation of a European Army,
in accordance with the Assembly's Recommendation of 11th August ;
and
5. Urges the Governments concerned to overcome the differences
which exist between them on the problems of military and political
structure, so that without delay the European Army may make its
contribution to the Atlantic Force.
