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Senator Lugar Continues Energy Security Mission

In the aftermath of Russia’s incursion into Georgia, Senator Lugar is on a two-week, nine-nation mission that focuses on the trans-Atlantic alliance’s energy security. He will meet with officials in France, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Germany, and at NATO and EU headquarters in Brussels.

• August 24: Senator Lugar oversees relief in Georgia
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• August 28: Senator Lugar Calls for European Leaders to Act on Energy Security
• September 2: Senator Lugar to Europeans: Biotech Breakthroughs Critical to Feeding World
• September 3: Lugar Endorses Georgia Aid Package

"It is time for the trans-Atlantic community to establish a credible energy security strategy that diversifies energy sources for all Europe, establishes a collective framework to work with Russia, and refuses to tolerate the use of energy as an instrument of coercion," Senator Lugar said at a speech in April. "The absence of a collective energy security strategy will lead to greater fragmentation among European nations and across the Atlantic.  This fragmentation will not be exclusive to energy policy; it may also detrimentally impact our ability to act upon shared security and economic issues."

Senator Lugar’s meetings are a continuation of his mission last January that took him to Georgia and Ukraine, and to the production end of oil and gas pipelines in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

Senator Lugar oversees humanitarian assistance being unloaded from a U.S. C-17 at the Tbilisi Airport

Press Releases:

09/03/2008	Lugar Endorses Georgia Aid Package
09/02/2008	Federal Assistance Available in Marion
09/02/2008	Lugar to Europeans: Biotech Breakthroughs Critical to Feeding World
08/28/2008	Hammond, Monroe Fire Departments Receive Grants
08/28/2008	Lugar Calls for European Leaders to Act on Energy Security
08/25/2008	Lugar oversees relief to Georgia
08/25/2008	Federal Assistance Available in Elkhart
08/23/2008	Lugar Statement on Biden
08/21/2008	Federal Assistance Available in Kendallville
08/21/2008	Federal Assistance Available in LaGrange

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