AMERICAN EXPERTS COMMENT ON OBAMA`S SPEECHES ABOUT GEORGIA
Daily Georgian Times
2009.07.08 17:02
American experts say the speeches made by the US president during his
visit to Moscow have reduced the chance of new war in the Caucasus
to minimum. The experts of the Hudson University and the Heritage
Foundation, Andrei Pointkovski and Sali MCnamara have said Obama
expressed open support to young democracies in his speeches.
Pointkovsky says the recent act by the Armenian president was also
a very significant signal for Russia and the West, when he awarded
the president of Georgia with Honor Prize. It was a demonstration of
support to Georgia as the Caucasian state and a signal for Russia that
resumption of conflict in the Caucasus would not be hailed by Armenia.
`I think it was a big relief to see Barack Obama come out and say
`we support the territorial integrity of Georgia and we take a very
deem view of further military action between Russia and Georgia, so
I think it`s very good that he spoke in glooming terms of Georgia
and of American commitments to Georgia but he did not on it any
further. Essentially, we have a lot of analysts including Andrey
Ilarionov, who used to work for Vladimir Putin, saying we are expecting
to see Russian aggression in Georgia in the next 46 weeks and I don`t
think Americans have any plan how they will react,` Sally McNamara,
who is a Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs at The Heritage
Foundation`s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom has told Rustavi2.