Armenian analyst: Obama’s assumption of power not to change US policy
with respect to Black Sea region

2009-01-24 14:21:00

ArmInfo. Barack Obama’s assumption of power will not change the US
policy with respect to the Black Sea region, independent analyst Igor
Muradyan told journalists, Saturday.

"The problem is that the team around Obama is very interesting,
professional, integrated in various power and analytical structures,
but at the same time the team structure is far from the structure
planned at the beginning of Obama’s presidential way",- he said.
Judging by this, Igor Muradyan thinks that the US policy with respect
to Armenia and the whole region will undergo no changes.

"The USA will be gradually increasing its presence in the Black Sea
region, as well as in the Central Asia. This is proved by many things;
the fact that Robert Gates has remained US Secretary of
Defense talks about various things",- said the analyst.

"The USA’s interest in the Black Sea region is not just a caprice. The
given region is closely connected with the issue of the US state
security. Therefore, in the near future we should expect not the
withdrawal of Americans from the region, but the consolidation of their
presence",- concluded Muradyan.