Should people be right to focus on Obama in Trinidad?
President Barack Obama has called for a new beginning between the United States and Cuba. Mr. Obama spoke at the opening of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago after a flurry of statements from U.S. and Cuban officials on the possibility of direct talks between the two long-estranged nations. President Obama got a rousing welcome as he strode into a large hall for the opening ceremony of the fifth Summit of the Americas. When it was his turn to speak, Mr. Obama said old grievances in the hemisphere should be set aside, replaced by a renewed commitment to expand prosperity, security and freedom in the Americas, with all nations working as equals to confront common challenges. “This is the future we can build together, but only if we move forward with a new sense of partnership,” he said. http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-17-voa44.cfm Sources:
Venturing into an unfamiliar region of the world, President Barack Obama made a splash on a stage of leaders from across the Americas on Friday and promised to offer them a new style of U.S. politics: more pragmatism, less arrogance. “We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms,” the president told the heads of every democratic government across the Western Hemisphere. “But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership,” Obama said. “There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations.” Such an idea _ that the United States is equal, despite being keeper of the world’s most powerful military and leader of an economy that helps steer the globe _ was telling. Obama’s drive to reshape the image of the United States as a humble, cooperative partner is perhaps his most significant mission here in this Caribbean nation. Grappling with an economic swoon that has touched them all, the heads of 34 nations have gathered for the first time in almos
President Barack Obama has called for a new beginning between the United States and Cuba. Mr. Obama spoke at the opening of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago after a flurry of statements from U.S. and Cuban officials on the possibility of direct talks between the two long-estranged nations. President Obama got a rousing welcome as he strode into a large hall for the opening ceremony of the fifth Summit of the Americas. When it was his turn to speak, Mr. Obama said old grievances in the hemisphere should be set aside, replaced by a renewed commitment to expand prosperity, security and freedom in the Americas, with all nations working as equals to confront common challenges. “This is the future we can build together, but only if we move forward with a new sense of partnership,” he said.
