On 3 November 1967, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates the Council’s replies to Recommendations 157 and 158 of the WEU Assembly on the situation in the Middle East. The Council shares the Assembly’s convictions on the serious nature of the crisis in the Middle East and on the urgent need to support all forms of humanitarian action on behalf of victims of hostilities. The WEU member governments are determined to continue their efforts to help find a peaceful solution, and the Council believes that the United Nations, in particular the Security Council, could be an appropriate framework for searching for means of establishing a lasting peace between all the countries concerned in this area.