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 | | Lord Peter Carrington, former secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), will deliver the 1996 George W. Ball Lecture, titled "Some Thoughts on Foreign Policy after the Collapse of the Soviet Union" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, May 2 at 8:00 p.m. |
 | | NATO was created to implement the North Atlantic Treaty, signed on April 4, 1949, which sought to establish a military counterweight to the Soviet military presence in postwar eastern Europe, and went on to function as the primary collective-defense agreement of the Western powers in opposition to communist forces in Europe. |
 | | Lord Carrington has held a variety of positions in the English government, including secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs, minister of overseas affairs, secretary of state for defense, chair of the Conservative Party, First Lord of the Admiralty, and British High Commissioner to Australia. |
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