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Creation of a European army

Recommendation 52 (1950)

Origin
Adopted 11th August 1950, on the conclusion of the debate on the Report and Message from the Committee of Ministers to the Assembly. See Doc. 47.

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.