Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the
Netherlands in the 50' and 60'. He refused to surrender what is now
West Papua to the
Indonesian authorities until forced to do so by the
Kennedy administration. He was one of the co-founders and signatories of the
EU's
treaty of Rome. He blocked attempts by
de Gaulle and
Adenauer to create a "Political Union" because it would have made the fledgling EU a franco-german condominion 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 18 July 2002.