On 25 February 1966, the Secretary-General of Western European Union (WEU) circulates a draft reply by the French delegation to Assembly Recommendation 126 on the political future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). The text emphasises that the Council agrees that security in the area covered by NATO depends to a large extent on close cooperation between the Allied powers in both political and military spheres. The reply to Recommendation 126 is adopted by the Council on 9 March, as shown by document C (66) 33.