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CONTACT: Ambassador Robert T. Grey Jr., 202-797-5280; Zack Allen, 415-775-6760

WASHINGTON, DC: The Global Security Institute (GSI) announced today that it has launched a new program to provide Members of Congress with expert analysis and opinion on security-related issues. Composed of the leading architects of the international security regime, the Bipartisan Security Group (BSG) seeks to serve as an objective, reliable resource for policy makers who support the American tradition of securing security through international cooperation and the rule of law.

"BSG can be of significant assistance to Members of Congress in the crucial forthcoming national debates over international security," said GSI President Jonathan Granoff.

According to BSG Chairman Ambassador Thomas Graham, "In order to win the war on terrorism and effectively pursue peace and security in the 21st Century, strengthening international security treaty regimes, advancing the role of international law and developing and maintaining close working relationships with all members of the civilized world is essential."

"America has worked diligently and successfully to create multilateral cooperative regimes based on the rule of law as a means of pursuing security," said Director Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., who will head the office located at 1779 Massachusetts Avenue. "Bipartisan cooperation has characterized American global leadership in arms control and nonproliferation efforts," said Grey noting key control and disarmament treaties (e.g. the ABM Treaty, START I, the INF Treaty, the NPT and the CWC) all obtained with bipartisan leadership.

"The U.S. Constitution emphasizes the importance of international agreements by making treaties the supreme law of our land," said Granoff. "This insight in building international order proved its value in the arms control process that helped guide us safely through the Cold War. Now the terrorist threat continues to make it vital. The unilateral actions of any one country in this global context is not legally viable and can only be perceived as politically naïve. UN mechanisms are available, are legally binding, and must be used to confront terrorism."

The Global Security Institute was founded by Senator Alan Cranston who believed that it is unworthy of civilization to base security on the threat to annihilate millions of innocent people. He also felt strongly that international institutions that promote cooperation and the law are viable mechanisms to move beyond the unacceptable risk posed by nuclear weapons.

The following senior experts have joined the Bipartisan Security Group and are available for comment. To set up an interview, please call the press office at 202-797-5280 or 610-585-0844:

Chairman
Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr., former President of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS), was involved in the negotiation of every major international arms control and nonproliferation agreement of the past 30 years. As President Clinton's Special Representative for Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Ambassador Graham led the successful U.S. government effort to indefinitely extend the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Director
Ambassador Robert T. Grey, Jr., former U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, was also Leader of the State Department UN Reform Team. He was a Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations and Counselor for Political Affairs of the United States Mission to the United Nations in New York. Among other postings, Ambassador Grey served as Acting Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as well as Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels.

Dr. Gloria Duffy has served as U.S. Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense during the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent the spread of their nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and material to terrorists and states that threaten international peace and security. Dr. Duffy is currently CEO of the Commonwealth Club, the nation's largest and oldest civic forum.

Ambassador James Goodby, former Ambassador to Finland, is Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asian Studies and Senior Advisor in the Security Studies program at Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Ambassador Goodby was Vice Chairman of the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Nuclear Arms Negotiations with the U.S.S.R., Chief of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, and Chief U.S. Negotiator for the Safe and Secure Dismantlement of Nuclear Weapons. He was advisor to AEC Commissioner John von Neumann and also served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.

Rose Gottemoeller is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and holds a joint appointment with the Russian and Eurasian Program and the Global Policy Program. Before joining the Endowment, Ms. Gottemoeller was Deputy Undersecretary for Defense and Nuclear Nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy.

John Holum served as Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; Senior Advisor to President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for Arms Control, Nonproliferation and Disarmament; and as Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Professor Barry Kellman is a law professor at DePaul University College of Law and co-director of the International Criminal Justice and Weapons Control Center. As chair of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Chemical Weapons, he was principle author of the Manual For National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was recently issued in its second edition. He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense Special Weapons Agency, the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the U.S. Department of Commerce. He chairs the ABA Committee on Law and National Security as well as the American Society of International Law Section on Arms Control.

Professor David Koplow, former Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Defense, teaches International Law and National Security, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at Georgetown University.

John Rhinelander is senior counsel at Show Pittman LLP. Before joining Shaw Pittman in 1977, he served in six departments and agencies of the federal government, including Defense, State and Legal Advisor to the US SALT I delegation.

Suzanne Spaulding was formerly Executive Director of the National Commission on Terrorism and of the US Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Ms. Spaulding also served as Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Assistant General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency. She is currently Chairperson of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security and a consultant on national security issues.