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Burns Outlines U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities May 26, 2005 / Brussels
U.S. Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns outlined the U.S. government's global priorities for an audience of the Transatlantic Democracy Network on May 26. Echoing the theme of the TDN conference, Burns said democracy promotion is the administration’s top foreign policy priority for the remainder of the Bush presidency, and that the U.S.-Europe relationship — currently at a "pivotal point," he said — is the key avenue for pursuing peace and democracy going forward.
The conference, sponsored by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Freedom House, and the National Endowment for Democracy, aimed to bring together the democracy promotion and traditional foreign policy communities on both side of the Atlantic to discuss how to make the promotion of democracy a more mainstream and common foreign policy task.
"A lot of us feel that we're now at a transition point where the great common project that unites Europe and America is no longer Germany, it's no longer the East-West divide, it's no longer what we can do to preserve democracy and security here in Europe," Burns said. "The great common project has to be: What can we do outside of the transatlantic relationship to preserve peace and security and democracy around the world?"
According to Burns, the major agenda items for the transatlantic alliance include the completion of the democratization and integration of the Balkans, consolidating democracy in Ukraine and fostering it in neighboring Belarus as well as Russia as well as the generational project of supporting democratic reform and change in the broader Middle East. A full text of Undersecretary Burns' remarks can be found by following this link.
