PRESS RELEASE (93)77                               7 December 1993

                  NATO SECRETARY GENERAL TO MEET WITH
                       RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN

The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Mafred Woerner, will meet the
President of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, on 9 December
at the Chateau du Stuyvenbergh in Laeken.

The meeting will start at 08:45 and will last approximately 1 hour.