WASHINGTON (March 15, 2006)
Congressman Ben Chandler recently traveled to Brussels as part of his official duties as a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. The role of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly is to maintain a strong link between NATO and the Congresses and parliaments in NATO member
countries.
Patrick Stephenson works at the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly as a Research Assistant. Stephenson is a resident of Bourbon County working in Brussels through June of this year.
Over 300 individuals applied for five spots
with the Assembly. Stephenson is currently focusing his research on Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan. In addition to his research assistant work, Stephenson is teaching classes on government, philosophy and economics to US
servicemen and women. He has also done election monitoring work in Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
The NATO headquarters is located in
Brussels, Belgium.
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