Petersberg Declaration
Petersberg Declaration | |
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Presented | 19 June 1992 |
Author(s) | Western European Union |
Purpose | To provide the WEU with forces, assets and responsibilities |
The Petersberg Declaration was adopted by ministers of the
Outline
The member states agreed to deploy their troops and resources from across the whole spectrum of the military under the authority of the WEU.[1] The tasks, which covered a range of possible military missions ranging from the most simple to the most robust military intervention, were formulated as:
- Humanitarian and rescuetasks
- Peacekeeping tasks
- Tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peacemaking.
Officially, the range of tasks the EU/WEU committed itself to "included" the above, but were not limited to them. In practice, the task of
Transfer to the EU
As a part of the partial merger of the WEU with the European Union, these tasks became part of the European Security and Defence Policy, and were central to strengthening the European Union's second pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy.
In 1997, during the
The transfer of bodies from the WEU to the EU as well as the collective defence clause of the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force in 2009, rendered the WEU obsolete, and the WEU was abolished in 2011.
See also
References
- ^ Theo Koele (20 June 1992). "West-Europa wil vrede afdwingen". Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 July 2015.