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His campaigns on behalf of disarmament and human rights won him the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, and he steadfastly argued that without international respect for human rights there could be no guarantee of peace.
Baker called Shevardnadze's visit "a good thing" and said, "It's very natural in light of the changes that are taking place and continuing to take place."
It would be the first visit by a Soviet foreign minister to the headquarters of the Western military alliance, a sign of the remarkable events unfolding in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
"This is a beautiful symbol of the growing cooperation between what can no longer be called the two [military] blocks but let's say East and West," said Belgian Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens, whose government was instrumental in arranging the visit.
Shevardnadze already was scheduled to be in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to sign a new trade and economic cooperation agreement with the 12-nation European Community. The accord will expand commercial ties between Moscow and prosperous Western Europe.