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Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance

Office of Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs

Our Mission

The Office of Euro-Atlantic Security Affairs serves as the lead within the Department for all matters related to existing and prospective European and Euro-Atlantic arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, in addition to security arrangements concerning conventional and non-strategic nuclear weapons and forces, including the development and adoption of approaches for achieving such policies.

U.S. Department of State

The Lessons of 1989: Freedom and Our Future