Identifier
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09SAOPAULO133
2009-03-11 11:47:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION - SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: AFGHANISTAN, NATO
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UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000133
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STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION - SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: AFGHANISTAN, NATO
ROLE, GOVERNANCE, TALIBAN; EUROPE: NATO; RUSSIA, SAO PAULO
TITLE- THE NEW U.S. DIPLOMACY
Editorial in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (3-8) states: "U.S.
Secretary Hillary Clinton's first international trip to the Middle
East and to Europe indicated a substantial shift...in U.S. diplomacy
under Barack Obama's administration. At Washington's instigation
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has re-established
formal relations with Russia....The initiative shows Obama's concern
to rebuild coherence between the means and the ends in U.S. foreign
policy, which was buried by a series of errors made by the Bush
administration. The return to rationality does not guarantee that
those ends will be achieved....but the change is indispensable to
regain U.S. position on the world's chessboard."
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