Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany— For the first time, the Marshall Center will graduate participants from ten new countries outside of its European and Eurasian region in a ceremony on July 30 at 11 a.m. The new countries are part of the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies with participants from Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia and South Africa.

Admiral Rainer Feist, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, will address the Marshall Center’s graduation which also includes participants from the Leaders of the 21st Century Program and Serbia and Montenegro Democracy Building Program. There will be a total of 147 participants from 44 countries graduating.

The Program on Terrorism and Security Studies was designed to help integrate the counter-terrorism community and enable individual nations to successfully cooperate in the on-going global war on terrorism. Participants included current and future national security officials working in counter-terrorist programs. The goal of the program was to help them appreciate both the nature and magnitude of today’s threat, and to improve their ability to counter terrorism’s regional implications by providing common grounds of knowledge, understanding and contacts.

Media are invited to cover the graduation remarks of Adm. Feist. The ceremony begins at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 30. Media should arrive not later than 10:45 a.m. For more information and access onto Sheridan Kaserne, please contact Laura DeFrancisco at 08821-750-648, mobile 0160-908-13761 or email defranciscol@marshallcenter.org. or Michael Meyer at 08821-750-795 or meyerm@marshallcenter.org.

The Marshall Center is a renowned U.S. Department of Defense and German Ministry of Defense educational institution. More than 3,200 military and civilian officials from 51 nations have graduated from resident courses and over 12,300 have attended nearly 200 conferences discussing European and Central Asian security issues since the center was dedicated in 1993.