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Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. He refused to surrender what is now West Papua 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 GaulleCharles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( November 22, 1890 November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as general de Gaulle , was a French general and politician. Prior to the Second World War, he was mostly known as a tactician of tank battles and an and Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer ( January 5, 1876 April 19, 1967) was a German statesman. Adenauer, a Centre Party politician, was Mayor of Cologne from 1917 to 1933, and as such, flirted with Rhenish separatism in the early 1920s. From 1922 to 1933 he was chancellor of 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 missileA cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. Cruise missiles are, in essence, unmanned aircraft. They are generally designed to carry a large conventional or nuclear warhes.

He died July 18 2002.