WESTERN UNITY
PERMANENT COUNCIL FORMED SIGNATORIES OF BRUSSELS PACT Rec. 11 p.m. PARIS, Apl. 17. Britain and the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) have established an organisation of Western European union under the Brussels Pact. The supreme body will be a permanent consultative council of five Foreign Ministers meeting at least quarterly in each capital in turn. , . Under the permanent consultative council will be a permanent executive of the council—the ambassadors in London of the Benelux and France, and a British representative to be appointed. This body, which will have a full-time secretariat, meets each month in London, the first meeting to be held on April 24. The executive will control the standing military committee The Defence Ministers of the respective countries will meet as necessary.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26749, 19 April 1948, Page 5
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