US emissaries have started their tour of the Middle East. The US administration aims to arm their allies in the region and boycott Hamas. Mahmoud Abbas, Pakistani President, left the country to make a visit to Russia – the country that apparently remains the only reliable mediator in the conflict. Abbas’s decision to visit Moscow became quite an unpleasant surprise for the USA.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in the Middle East. The two top officials of the United States will conduct negotiations with Arab leaders in Egypt and in Saudi Arabia. Afterwards, Rice will travel to Jerusalem and Ramallah to have a meeting with Israeli and Palestinian officials. “They will confirm it to our friends that the Middle East remains an important strategic priority for the USA,” Bush said.
Gates and Rice’s trip to the Middle East has three basic goals: to make Iraq’s neighboring states expand their assistance to stabilize the situation in the country, to try to move forward the peace regulation process between Palestine and Israel and to nullify Iran’s growing ambition in the region and to confirm that the USA is ready to guarantee security for its allies.
Tracking down and analyzing the chain of US officials’ visits to the Middle East one may come to conclusion that they have never brought any good to the Arab world. For example, it is simply impossible to imagine how Iraq’s neighbors are going to expand their assistance to this country against the background of USA’s ardent attempts to split the country into three.
Apparently, Ms. Rice is supposed to win the support of Mideastern countries in Bush’s initiative to hold the conference on Iraq in New York under the aegis of the aggressor. Washington was definitely disappointed to receive a quick refusal from the Middle East regarding that idea. Now the US administration is using its prime weapons – Condoleezza Rice, money and military power – to pursue the above goal.
To put it in a nutshell, Washington offers to inundate the whole region of the Middle East with weapons for the sake of peace and solve the stability issue. The Bush’s administration intends to sign large-scale defense contracts with friendly regions in the Middle East. It goes about both offensive and defensive arms.
The agreements, which the USA intends to sign with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, are said to total at least 20 billion dollars, US media report. Those arms deals will become the largest deals which the Bush’s administration has ever signed.
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