Dick Lugar: “Nabucco will help diversify gas supplies to many European countries.”

I join you in welcoming back Secretary Burns and Tom Nides, both who are good friends of the committee.

even if the INF Treaty finally falls by the wayside, something else is going to follow that is more comprehensive and of greater safety to more countries.

I do share that problem very much.

There is precedent for using patient diplomacy to resolve treaty violations.