New York The Kerry presidential campaign (website - www.johnkerry.com is shaping its foreign policy platform, and
wants to include issues in the candidate's agenda that are of importance to Americans of
Central and Eastern European descent. At a meeting organized by the Central European Business
Association (CEBA website - www.centraleurope.org), Mr. Rand Beers (photo - right), John Kerry's National Security and
Homeland Security Issue Coordinator, spoke to ethnic media and organization representatives
(including Albanian, Armenian, Belarus, Georgian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian,
Macedonian, Polish, and Ukrainian ones) about
this yesterday. The gathering took place at the offices of legal firm McGuire Woods.
Attorney Mark Brzezinski (photo - above) made the introductions.
Mr. Beers' opening remarks dealt with several broad policy proposals in a
potential Kerry Presidential administration, including conflating Homeland and
National Security Councils into one unit, restoring and strengthening the US's
alliance with NATO, supporting the strengthening of Customs and Immigration
regimes in foreign countries, implementing a frank and consistent policy with
Russia which doesn't ignore human rights issues, restoring and maintaining
funding to Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
Subsequently, Mr. Beers fielded questions for about an hour and a half.
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