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Dick Lugar: Many of us have been working for years, through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline or through various other situations, to try to…

On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
Many of us have been working for years, through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline or through various other situations, to try to think how our European allies and NATO could come out from underneath what really could be a critical hobbling situation.
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Dick Lugar
Republican · Indiana

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Lugar emphasizes the importance of energy independence for European allies to avoid vulnerabilities.

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