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Senator Lugar Continues Energy Security Mission

In the aftermath of Russia’s incursion into Georgia, Senator Lugar is embarked on a two-week, nine-nation mission August 23-September 5 that focused on the trans-Atlantic alliance’s energy security. He will met with officials in France, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Romania, Ukraine, Germany, and at NATO and EU headquarters in Brussels.

September 9: Lugar Summarizes Energy Mission, Encourages Energy Dialogue with Latin America
September 3: Lugar Endorses Georgia Aid Package
September 2: Senator Lugar to Europeans: Biotech Breakthroughs Critical to Feeding World
August 28: Senator Lugar Calls for European Leaders to Act on Energy Security
August 24: Senator Lugar oversees relief in Georgia
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Senator Lugar oversees humanitarian assistance being unloaded from a U.S. C-17 at the Tbilisi Airport

"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 were 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.

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The Fundamentals of the Lugar Energy Initiative

Lugar's Energy Plan - Senator Lugar's address to the Richard G. Lugar/Purdue University Summit on Energy Security, August 29, 2006.

Curing America's Oil Addiction - Transcript from Foreign Policy's Special Event featuring Senator Lugar and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, May 15, 2006.

U.S. Energy Security: A New Realism - Senator Lugar's speech to the Brookings Institution, March 13, 2006.

The New Petroleum - An essay by Senator Lugar and R. James Woolsey, as submitted to Foreign Affairs magazine, for the January/February 1999.

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