November 13, 2002
contact: Karl Altau tel. 301-340-1954
Webcast with Dr. Ronald Asmus - Opening the Doors at Prague
Washington, DC (JBANC) - Dr. Ronald Asmus, one of the earliest and most principled
policy pointpersons behind NATO enlargement, will be JBANC's guest in its seventh
interactive webcast, to be broadcast on Monday, November 18. That same week, NATO
allies will be meeting in Prague to issue invitations to up to seven new potential members,
including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Asmus, whose book "Opening NATO's Door" is being published in November, has been a
Senior Transatlantic Fellow since September 1st at the German Marshall Fund of the United
States. At the same time, he is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Previously, Asmus served at the State Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs under Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who has noted in his
book, "The Russia Hand", that Asmus was instrumental in influencing the administration and
by working closely with "NSC staff and the Pentagon on bridging subtle differences within the
alliance and profound ones between NATO and Russia."
The webcast is scheduled to take place from 10:00-11:00 a.m. EST. Asmus will be fielding
questions which can be submitted through JBANC's website at: http://jbanc.org/studio.html
The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. represents the Estonian American National
Council, Inc., the American Latvian Association, Inc. and the Lithuanian American Council, Inc.
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