ANNEX: EXTRACTS FROM KEY DOCUMENTS
Extracts from the Adapted Brussels Treaty,
1954
ARTICLE IV
In the execution of the Treaty, the High Contracting
Parties and any Organs established by Them under the Treaty shall
work in close co-operation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
Recognising the undesirability of duplicating the
military staffs of NATO, the Council and its Agency will rely
on the appropriate military authorities of NATO for information
and advice on military matters.
ARTICLE V
If any of the High Contracting Parties should be
the object of an armed attack in Europe, the other High Contracting
Parties will, in accordance with the provisions of Article 51
of the Charter of the United Nations, afford the Party so attacked
all the military and other aid and assistance in their power.
ARTICLE VI
All measures taken as a result of the preceding Article
shall be immediately reported to the Security Council. They shall
be terminated as soon as the Security Council has taken the measures
necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.
The present Treaty does not prejudice in any way
the obligations of the High Contracting Parties under the provisions
of the Charter of the United Nations. It shall not be interpreted
as affecting in any way the authority and responsibility of the
Security Council under the Charter to take at any time such action
as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international
peace and security.
ARTICLE VII
The High Contracting Parties declare, each so far
as he is concerned, that none of the international engagements
now in force between him and any other of the High Contracting
Parties or any third State is in conflict with the provisions
of the present Treaty.
None of the High Contracting Parties will conclude
any alliance or participate in any coalition directed against
any other of the High Contracting Parties.
ARTICLE VIII
For the purposes of strengthening peace and security
and of promoting unity and of encouraging the progressive integration
of Europe and closer co-operation between Them and with other
European organisations, the High Contracting Parties to the Brussels
Treaty shall create a Council to consider matters concerning the
execution of this Treaty and of its Protocols and their Annexes.
This Council shall be known as the "Council
of Western European Union"; it shall be so organised as to
be able to exercise its functions continuously; it shall set up
such subsidiary bodies as may be considered necessary: in particular
it shall establish immediately an Agency for the Control of Armaments
whose functions are defined in Protocol No. IV.
At the request of any of the High Contracting Parties
the Council shall be immediately convened in order to permit Them
to consult with regard to any situation which may constitute a
threat to peace, in whatever area this threat should arise, or
a danger to economic stability.
The Council shall decide by unanimous vote questions
for which no other voting procedure has been or may be agreed.
In the cases provided for in Protocols II, III and IV it will
follow the various voting procedures, unanimity, two-thirds majority,
simple majority, laid down therein. It will decide by simple majority
questions submitted to it by the Agency for the Control of Armaments.
ARTICLE IX
The Council of Western European Union shall make
an annual report on its activities and in particular concerning
the control of armaments to an Assembly composed of representatives
of the Brussels Treaty Powers to the Consultative Assembly of
the Council of Europe.
ARTICLE X
In pursuance of their determination to settle disputes
only by peaceful means, the High Contracting Parties will apply
to disputes between themselves the following provisions;
The High Contracting Parties will, while the present
Treaty remains in force, settle all disputes falling within the
scope of Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the International
Court of Justice, by referring them to the Court, subject only,
in the case of each of them, to any reservation already made by
that Party when accepting this clause for compulsory jurisdiction
to the extent that that Party may maintain the reservation.
In addition, the High Contracting Parties will submit
to conciliation all disputes outside the scope of Article 36,
paragraph 2, of the Statute of the International Court of Justice.
In the case of a mixed dispute involving both questions
for which conciliation is appropriate and other questions for
which judicial settlement is appropriate, any Party to the dispute
shall have the right to insist that the judicial settlement of
the legal questions shall precede conciliation.
The preceding provisions of this Article in no way
affect the application of relevant provisions or agreements prescribing
some other method of pacific settlement.
ARTICLE XI
The High Contracting Parties may, by agreement, invite
any other State to accede to the present Treaty on conditions
to be agreed between them and the State so invited.
Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty
by depositing an instrument of accession with the Belgian Government.
The Belgian Government will inform each of the High
Contracting Parties of the deposit of each instrument of accession.
ARTICLE XII
The present Treaty shall be ratified and the instruments
of ratification shall be deposited as soon as possible with the
Belgian Government.
It shall enter into force on the date of the deposit
of the last instrument of ratification and shall thereafter remain
in force for fifty years.
After the expiry of the period of fifty years, each
of the High Contracting Parties shall have the right to cease
to be a party thereto provided that he shall have previously given
one year's notice of denunciation to the Belgian Government.
The Belgian Government shall inform the Governments
of the other High Contracting Parties of the deposit of each instrument
of ratification and of each notice of denunciation.
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