{"id":15778,"date":"2009-10-26T21:16:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T19:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=15778"},"modified":"2023-04-06T15:43:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:43:43","slug":"biden-sees-more-opportunity-than-danger-in-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/10\/26\/biden-sees-more-opportunity-than-danger-in-caucasus\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Sees \u2018More Opportunity Than Danger\u2019 In Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Czech Republic \/ United States – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in an interview with RFE\/RL in Prague, 23Oct2009<\/div>\n
26.10.2009<\/div>\n
Abubakar Siddique, Brian Whitmore<\/div>\n

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has struck an upbeat tone regarding the South Caucasus region, saying that Turkey’s recent rapprochement with longtime foe Armenia and other developments in the volatile region are \u201cfraught with more opportunity than danger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a wide-ranging interview with RFE\/RL on Friday, Biden pointed to the recently signed Turkish-Armenian agreements and progress toward a settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh as causes for optimism.<\/p>\n

“What’s happening, from my perspective, is that people in the [South Caucasus] region are beginning to understand that their self-interest lies in greater cooperation now. Not out of love and affection, but out of necessity and opportunity,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to be a very difficult period,\u201d continued the vice president. \u201cIt is fraught with danger, but I would argue it\u2019s fraught with more opportunity than danger. And I see more positive things happening than negative things happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everyone\u2019s seized with the consequence of not making progress in that region of the world. Therefore, because so many are focused on it, I\u2019m more hopeful than I am pessimistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to RFE\/RL in Prague at the conclusion of a three-day visit to Eastern European capitals, Biden insisted that Russia could contribute to regional stability and integration despite consolidating its dominance over Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at Russia with eyes wide open, as a realist,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd my expectation is that Russia will decide over the next decade that its interest lies in more integration rather than what some in Russia seem to be thinking may be a different course. So we just have to keep the dialogue going.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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