List of Secretaries General of the Western European Union
The Secretary-General of the Western European Union was the head of the Western European Union (WEU), a Cold War era European defence and collective security organisation, which was dissolved in 2011.[1]
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In 1999, it was agreed that the holder of the newly-created post of High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union 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.
List of Secretaries General
Name | Country | Years |
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Louis Goffin | 1955–1962 | |
Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte | 1962–1970 | |
Georges Heisbourg | 1971–1974 | |
Friedrich-Karl von Plehwe | 1974–1977 | |
Edouard Longerstaey | 1977–1985 | |
Alfred Cahen | 1985–1989 | |
Wim van Eekelen | 1989–1994 | |
José Cutileiro | 1994–1999 | |
Javier Solana | 1999–2009 | |
Arnaud Jacomet | 2009–2011 |
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