It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.