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Ambassador Victoria Nuland Discusses Security Issues on the Eve of the NATO Ministerial

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Victoria Nuland Date: Wednesday, 5 December 2007 Time: 9:30 a.m. EST (1430 GMT) View Webchat Transcript

Secretary of State Rice will be in Brussels on December 6th and December 7th to attend the NATO ministerial at NATO headquarters. The NATO-Russia Council (NRC), the NATO-Ukraine Commission (NUC) and NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue will also meet at the level of foreign ministers on December 7th. At these meetings, Foreign Ministers will take up political and security issues such as Afghanistan, Kosovo, Missile Defense, Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE), among others of importance to the TransAtlantic relationship and between NATO and its partner countries.

Please join Ambassador Nuland to discuss the U.S. view on some of these key security questions facing North America, Europe and security partners around the globe.

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Guest Biography: Victoria Nuland was sworn in as the 18th United States Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on July 13, 2005. A career Foreign Service Officer, she was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005 where she worked on the full range of global issues, including the promotion of democracy and security in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Lebanon and the broader Middle East.

Ambassador Nuland was United States Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels, Belgium from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO’s historic invocation of Article 5 of its charter – “an attack on one ally is an attack on all” – in support of the U.S. after September 11, 2001. Ambassador Nuland also worked intensively on the enlargement of the Alliance to include 7 new members, the creation of the NATO-Russia Council, NATO’s first deployment “out of area” to Afghanistan and its defense of Turkey during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

She has a B.A. from Brown University and is married to Robert Kagan, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, and a monthly columnist for The Washington Post.