Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Obama team, preparing the changes

One of the first decisions to be taken by the new US president, after January 20, will to start the process of closing Guantanamo. Today, Hillary R. Clinton appears before the Senate, in the hearings for the position of top US Diplomat.


UPDATE: Hilary Clinton promised to renew the US leadership. But, of course, starting from a current situation and trying to manage projects already started, as the situation in Afghanistan. US are having already a leadership position and the State Department is already working on various diplomatic fronts, through its diplomats all over the world.

See also: Key foreign policy statements by Obama, Clinton - Reuters

Voices of difference: Christopher Hitchens in Slate

John Vinocur, IHT - Diplomacy weakened by words without action


German minister of Foreign Affairs, Frank-Walter Steinmeier - Open letter to Barack Obama - The US-German partnership






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