Relating to the Committee of Ministers as a policy-making and co-ordinating instrument of member Governments

Recommendation 264 (1960)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 22nd September 1960 (11th and 12th Sittings) (see Doc. 1181, Report of the Political Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 29th September 1960 (20th Sitting).

1. The Assembly,

2. Considering that the latest developments in the international situation have demonstrated the need for improving collaboration among the nations of the free world;

3. Believing that the Western position would be strengthened by a firm effort at uniting politically the member States of the Council of Europe,

4. Recommends that member Governments should use the Committee of Ministers as a policy-making instrument where the policies of member States can be co-ordinated as a step towards strengthening the solidarity of Europe with the United States of America and other nations of the free world.