Robert L. Barry

'''Amb. Robert L. Barry'''

"Barry is currently a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and has had a long career with the US government on European affairs and arms control. Ambassador Barry headed the OSCE Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina from January 1998 to June 2001. He also served as ambassador to Bulgaria and Indonesia. Ambassador Barry helped establish and coordinate U.S. assistance programs for Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union promoting market economies and democracy. He also served as Deputy Director of the Voice of America and ambassador to the Stockholm Conference on Disarmament in Europe."

"Barry's areas of expertise are Indonesia, Eastern Europe, and the independent states of the former Soviet Union; environmental and management studies. He has held diplomatic positions including serving as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia from 1992 to 1995, and working with Deputy Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger, from 1989 to 1992, in setting U.S. assistance programs for East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. In 1995 he became a principal in Phoenix International, an electric power development company."


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