ACCESSION NUMBER:370743
FILE ID:EUR509
DATE:12/09/94
TITLE:LUGAR TO MEET WITH OFFICIALS ON NATO, BOSNIA IN EUROPE (12/09/94)
TEXT:*94120905.PFE
*EUR509   12/09/94
LUGAR TO MEET WITH OFFICIALS ON NATO, BOSNIA IN EUROPE
(Will deliver address at Democracy Institute) (360)
Washington -- U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar will meet with German, French and
British officials to develop strategies for ending the bloodshed in Bosnia
and expanding membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Lugar is embarking on his European mission at the request of foreign
officials and with the backing of U.S. Secretary of State Warren
Christopher.  Lugar will meet with foreign and defense ministers in Germany
and France.  He will be in Germany December 13-15, in France December 16-17
and will to conclude his mission in England December 16-17.

Lugar has long advocated enhancing NATO's missions and memberships.  He has
stressed that clear criteria and a definite timetable must be established
for members of the former Soviet bloc to enter the NATO alliance.  The war
in Bosnia has been the prime challenge for NATO and European peace since
the end of the Cold War.

While in Europe, Lugar also will deliver the commencement address for the
first graduating class of the George C. Marshall European Center for
Security Studies.  Lugar will speak on December 14 in Garmisch, Germany,
near Munich.

The Marshall Center, established in June 1993 and funded in part by the
1unn-Lugar program, is dedicated to stabilizing and strengthening post-cold
War Europe.  The center's class is comprised of 75 military and civilian
leaders from 23 countries that include the new democracies of Central and
Eastern Europe as well as from the newly independent states of the former
Soviet Union.

The center's mission is to help defense and foreign ministries develop
national security organizations that reflect democratic principles.  The
curriculum focuses on defense planning, organization and management in
democratic societies.  The center also sponsors activities that promote
defense cooperation between countries.

In their classes, students learn the fundamentals of the military's role in
a democratic society.  The skills they develop should help them lead their
countries, transition from dictatorship to democracy.  Graduates will
return home to serve in senior policy-making positions in ministries of
defense, foreign affairs and other key institutions.

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