Russian expert: US policy towards Georgia and Ukraine will be continued under new administration

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Now allies are tired of a unilateral policy of the current American president, George Bush, and his administration, that is why a search for consensus is possible between Western Europe, old NATO members and the USA, Fedor Voytolovsky, senior researcher at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAS) said while speaking at a round table “The USA at the Post-Soviet space. The new policy”, at the REGNUM press centre today, on November 24.

According to Voytolovsky, US interests are global in nature, that is why the US policy in the post-Soviet territory should be considered in the context of the US global interests and in the context of further extension of the direct and indirect presence of the USA in the post-Soviet territory. “The prior US national security strategy adopted in 2006 said the USA target was making a belt of states around Russia that would allow US presence and exerting influence. The policy towards Georgia and Ukraine, on both of which the US leadership and the foreign policy circles have made many decisions related to NATO membership or MAP for Georgia and Ukraine, will continue under the new administration, as far as this is a vital zone of US interests access to the Caspian and Central Asian energy resources and the post-Soviet space pose great interest in this aspect.

“A lot can change after the White House administration changes, but I do not think that administration of Barack Obama will give up the further expansion of the NATO and the development of the transatlantic relations,” Fedor Voytolovsky noted.

It is worth mentioning, the round-table discussion “The USA in the post-Soviet space. The new policy” was held today at the REGNUM press centre on November 24. Yuli Kvitsinsky, the first deputy chairof the Committee for International Affairs of the Russian State Duma, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Viktor Kremenyuk, deputy head of the Institute of USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fyodor Lukyanov, editor in chief of the magazine Russia in Global Affairs took part in it.