Former Senator Sam Nunn, former Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and UK parliamentarian Des Browne discussed their report, Building Mutual Security in the Euro-Atlantic Region, at a September 12 event hosted by the German Marshall Fund in Brussels.
Speaking in the midst of fast-moving events ahead of the recent Syrian chemical weapons agreement, Nunn called the proposal "a potential game-changer." On the sequence of events, Nunn said, “The question I have is, why did we have to more or less stumble into that?…Why can’t we do these things earlier?”
Nunn, Ivanov, Browne and report co-chair Wolfgang Ischinger were in Brussels for meetings with officials from Europe, Russia and NATO about a new direction for Euro-Atlantic relations, as detailed in Building Mutual Security. The report calls for a new politically-mandated dialogue among the United States, Europe and Russia.
The following week, the European Leadership Network hosted a seminar on the report, which included Sen. Nunn and Lord Browne, as well as Building Mutual Security participants.
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