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.
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 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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