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Obama’s Diplomatic Foreign Policy
The United States will be led by a new president after January 20 of next year. U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama is already promising to change the country’s foreign policy, which he says should be based on diplomacy, multilateral cooperation and partnership, Reuters reports. Obama stated at the beginning of this week that the fate of the U.S. is inseparable from the fate of the world.
Analysts have noted, however, that Obama has yet to reveal any details of the country’s future foreign policy. His positions on Iran, North Korea and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, for example, are unknown, they note. It is known that Obama is inclined to reach an agreement with Iran directly. Experts say future U.S.-Iranian relations may depend on finding “points of interest” with the Islamic republic, and those points may become the basis for an American diplomatic presence in Iran for the first time in many years.
Obama’s future administration has been the topic of much commentary. The future president has stated that he wants to surround himself with “strong personalities.” He has chosen a team of veteran politicians that has met with the approval of Russian experts and politicians. Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Federation Council International Affairs Committee, expects relations between Russia and the U.S. to improve with Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. “She has someone to confer with, since she is the wife of former president Bill Clinton,” Margelov noted. Experts expect her to concentrate on universal values, such as human rights, independent courts and democratic institutions, in her relations with Russia.
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