WEU Member States agree to strengthen therole of WEU, in the longer-term perspective of a common defencepolicy within the European Union which might in time lead to acommon defence, compatible with that of the Atlantic Alliance.
Comhaontaíonn Ballstáit AIE ról AIEa neartú, in ionchas níos fadtéarmaí comhbheartas cosanta laistighden Aontas Eorpach as a dtiocfadh in am trátha comhchosaint atáag luí le beartas na Comhghuaillíochta Atlantaí.