List of Secretaries General of the Western European Union
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The Secretary-General of the Western European Union was the head of the
Western European Union The Western European Union (WEU; french: Union de l'Europe occidentale, UEO; german: Westeuropäische Union, WEU) was the international organisation and military alliance that succeeded the Western Union (WU) after the 1954 amendment of the 1948 ...
(WEU), a
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era
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an defence and
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organisation, which was dissolved in 2011. In 1999, it was agreed that the holder of the newly-created post of
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of the
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should also be the Secretary-General of the WEU. This was then Javier Solana; however, following a reconfiguration of the High Representative post, Solana's successor Catherine Ashton was never appointed Secretary-General, and an acting secretary-general fulfilled the role until the WEU's dissolution in 2011.


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