If, for example, the Union were to combine political support for an African nuclear weapon-free zone with the promise that it would consider assistance to parties of such a zone threatened by nuclear weapons, efforts within NATO and WEU to prepare for contingencies involving weapons of mass destruction would assume a legitimate multilateral, rather than a threatening unilateral, image in the eyes of at least the African countries.
Enfin, force est de reconnaître que l'Union est encore loin d'être parfaite que ce soit au fond ou du point de vue des instruments de sa politique de non-prolifération.