At the 386th meeting of the Council of Western European Union (WEU), held at ministerial level on 9 and 10 January 1970 in Brussels, the delegations discuss East–West relations. The British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Michael Stewart, welcomes the attempts made by the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) to improve its relations with Eastern Europe. He also notes that in recent months the Soviet Union has adopted a more moderate style towards the West, but he doubts that there have been any real changes in the main objectives of Soviet foreign policy. With regard to the proposal by the member countries of the Warsaw Pact to organise a conference on European security, the British Government is in agreement with the line taken by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which does not simply accept the proposal at face value but does not refute it entirely. The British also believe that the unilateral attempts to resolve problems with the Soviet Union have not been advantageous and that NATO should remain the appropriate forum, at least in the first instance.