Analyst: Kosovo to remain important for next US administration
American analyst Jonathan Clarke believes that the Balkans, with the exception of Kosovo, will hardly feature among the new U.S. administration's foreign policy priorities
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, October 30, 2008
Clarke, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York, explained that Kosovo will be an exception because of the implications it may have on the Transcaucasus..
Since Russia will be one of the top priorities - because of the Russian gas, Moscow's relations Brussels and Russia's influence in the Near East - "I think that there will be an undercover reexamination of the consequences of the Kosovo independence recognition," Clarke said in an interview with the Voice of America.
He holds that there is growing consensus in the West that the decision on Kosovo was reached in a hasty manner and without the consent of Moscow, which has caused an aggravation of relations with Russia.
