'''Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns''' ( August_28 1911 - July_18 2002) was a Dutch Politician and former NATO secretary-general.
Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. He refused to surrender Western_New_Guinea to the Indonesian authorities until forced to do so by the Kennedy administration of the United_States. He was one of the co-founders and signatories of the EU's Treaty_of_Rome. He blocked attempts by Charles_de_Gaulle and Konrad_Adenauer to create a "Political Union" because it would have made the fledgling EU a Franco-German codominion in his eyes. Later he became Secretary General of the NATO. As such he came in conflict with the rather left-wing government of his own country, e.g. by insisting that the Netherlands install Cruise_missiles.
He died July_18 2002.
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