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Any progress in Iran has to be attributed to Obama's overall strategy: Albright |
Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
has said the Obama Administration's "smart power" strategy of engaging instead
of confronting Iran is beginning to gain traction. "I think any progress has to
be attributed to Obama's overall strategy. The speech he gave recently to the
General Assembly at the UN established an important context. He called for global
cooperation on a variety of issues - including Iran - and said if you don't like
American unilateralism you have to help. Then, when he chaired the Security Council,
he gathered a consensus on nonproliferation and for a push back against Iran,"
Albright told the Christian Science Monitor. Albright further said she was never
a keen supporter of the missile defense project in Eastern Europe, which caused
some worry in Poland and the Czech Republic. "I am a strong supporter of NATO
and understand Poland and the Czech Republic well. I thought the missile defense
plan proposed by the Bush administration, which Obama has just now reviewed and
changed, was a mistake in the first place. We didn't know whether those systems
worked, the treaties were very badly negotiated. They were bilateral agreements
between those countries and the US, and not through NATO," Albright said. "I know
enough about the politics of Poland and the Czech Republic to know how hard it
was for them to swallow. The Czech government put itself out for the original
plan, and fell from power as a result. It was therefore the right thing for Obama
to change the policy with a closer and tighter targeting of missiles against Iran.
I do think, though, that NATO must become more involved here," she added. |
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