معاون اوباما در اوین کنفرانس بین المللی رسمی بر مواضع قبلی آمریکا در مورد ایران و روسیه تاکید کرد
معاون رییس جمهوری امریکا، جو بایدن، با اختصاص بخش های کلیدی
سخنرانی خود به مسائل مرتبط به ایران، ضمن تاکید بر ادامه آمادگی برای
استفاده از دیپلماسی، از متحدان کشور متبوع خود خواست «آمادگی برای
استفاده از زور» را در صورت شکست دیپلما سی، مد نظر قرار دهند.
سخنان جو بایدن در کنفرانس امنیتی مونیخ آمیزه ای از
علائق سنتی دموکرات ها برای توسعه آزادی های سیاسی اجتماعی در جهان، و
آمادگی جمهوریخواهان برای استفاده از « تمامی امکانات» در جهت تحقق هدف
های عمده سیاست خارجی آن کشور را بود.
در بخش مربوط به ایران، جو بایدن در سخنانی که دقیقا
یاد آور سخنرانی های گذشته جورج بوش رییس جمهور سابق امریکا بود، و در
تلاشی تازه برای جدا نگه داشتن حساب دولت از مردم ایران اظهار داشت : «
مردم ایران ملتی بزرگ اند. تمدن پارسی تمدنی بزرگ است. اما رفتار (دولت )
ایران تاکنون موجب تقویت صلح منطقه و تامین رفاه اقتصادی مردم آن کشور
نبوده است: برنامه اتمی غیر مجاز آن شاهد این مدعی است. اگرچه دولت ما در
حال بازبینی سیاست های در قبال ایران است ولی در عین حال این نکته روشن
است که ما برای گفتگو آماده ایم.»
MUNICH - Vice President Joe Biden held out an olive branch yesterday to
Iran and Russia, and reassured European allies that the Obama
administration would treat them as equals, but he emphasized that
"America will ask its partners to do more as well."
In a major foreign policy address yesterday at an international
security conference here, Biden told an audience of world leaders that
the White House was willing to engage the government in Tehran if it
heeded calls to end its nuclear-weapons program and changed its
policies in the Middle East.
"This much is clear: We will be
willing to talk," Biden said. But he added that Iran faces a choice:
"Continue down your current course and there will be pressure and
isolation; abandon the illicit nuclear program and your support for
terrorism and there will be meaningful incentives."
Biden said the United States will try to act preventively in dealing
with Iran, to avoid the dangers of inaction and the risk of war.
Biden
also said the White House wanted a fresh start with the Kremlin, which
under Vladimir Putin had seen a steady deterioration in relations with
the Bush administration.
"The last few years have seen a
dangerous drift in relations between Russia and members of our
alliance," he said, referring to the NATO military alliance.
"The United States rejects the notion that NATO"s gain is Russia"s loss, or that Russia"s strength is NATO"s weakness."
"As President Obama has said, "It"s time to press the reset button," " he added.
In
recent months, Moscow and Washington have squabbled over the Russian
invasion of Georgia, proposals to expand NATO, and the global financial
crisis. The Pentagon also blames Russia for pressuring the Central
Asian country of Kyrgystan to close a US airbase that supplies troops
in Afghanistan.
Another sore point has been the Pentagon"s plans
to develop a global missile-defense shield with anchors in Poland and
the Czech Republic.
The US military says it needs to base missile
interceptors and a radar-tracking system in Eastern Europe to fend off
a possible attack from Iran. Russia, however, has said it sees the
shield as a veiled attempt to negate its nuclear forces and has
threatened to target Poland and the Czech Republic in retaliation.
Russian
leaders had been hoping that Obama, who was cool to the idea of a
missile shield during his presidential campaign, would end the program.
Biden said the project would go forward, but only if the Obama
administration is satisfied that its unproven technology will work and
only in consultation with Europe and Russia.
Biden is scheduled to meet privately later this weekend in Munich with Sergei Ivanov, Russia"s deputy prime minister.
While
he was conciliatory in his speech, Biden also signaled that the Obama
administration would take a tough line when necessary.
He said
the US government would not recognize the breakaway Caucasus republics
of Abkhazia or South Ossetia, which seceded after the war in Georgia
and has received strong Russian support.
"We will not agree with Russia on everything," he said. "We will not recognize any nation having a sphere of influence."
Although
he did not directly refer to the dispute over the military base in
Kyrgystan, Biden said he hoped the United States and Russia would work
more closely to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, a goal that Russia
has said it shares.
Konstantin Kosachev, head of the
international relations committee in Russia"s lower Parliament house,
said in an interview on the state-run Vesti-24 television that the tone
of Biden"s speech was "rather encouraging."
"It was really a serious call to restart US foreign policy - including, clearly, Russian-American relations," Kosachev said.
Much
of the morning session of the conference was attended by Ali Larijani,
the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, but participants said he left
the room before Biden"s speech. It was not clear whether Biden would
meet privately with Larijani.
Biden told European leaders that
the White House was in the midst of a top-to-bottom review of its
policy in Afghanistan, where the war is entering its eighth year with
no end in sight.
Although the vice president said the Obama
administration would cooperate closely with NATO members on the
strategic review, he also said that it would expect more help. The
White House is expected to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan this year,
nearly doubling the size of its force there. European countries,
however, have been reluctant to do more
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