Contact: Suzanne Trimel                                                    For immediate use
             (212) 854-5573                                                                  July 24, 1997
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 MEDIA ADVISORY

	NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL SOLANA TO SPEAK AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY JULY 29

	NATO Secretary General Javier Solana will discusss the expansion 
of NATO in a speech at the School of International and Public Affairs at 
Columbia University on Tuesday, July 29.

	The media is invited to cover the speech at 10 A.M. in the Kellogg 
Conference Center, 15th floor of the International Affairs Building, 420 
West 118th Street at Amsterdam Avenue.  Please call this office if you plan 
to cover.

	Dr. Solana is in the United States to meet with government leaders, 
including Defense Secretary William Cohen and Deputy Secretary of State 
Strobe Talbott and members of Congress and to speak on NATO issues to a
 number of institutions and bodies.

	His trip follows the recent summit of NATO members which 
approved the most sweeping changes to the alliance since its founding in 
1949.  NATO took the historic step of inviting three former Soviet Bloc 
countries -- Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic -- to join the 
American-led alliance.

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