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]
In 1999, it was agreed that the holder of 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 since a reconfiguration of the High Representative post, Solana's successor Catherine Asthon was however never appointed Secretary-General and an acting secretary-general fulfilled the role until the WEU's dissolvement in 2011.
List of Secretaries General
Name | Country | Years |
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Louis Goffin | Belgium | 1955–1962 |
Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte | Belgium | 1962–1970 |
Georges Heisbourg | Luxembourg | 1971–1974 |
Friedrich-Karl von Plehwe | West Germany | 1974–1977 |
Edouard Longerstaey | Belgium | 1977–1985 |
Alfred Cahen | Belgium | 1985–1989 |
Wim van Eekelen | Netherlands | 1989–1994 |
José Cutileiro | Portugal | 1994–1999 |
Javier Solana | Spain | 1999–2009 |
Arnaud Jacomet | France | 2009–2011 |
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