Trump is yet far from NK conflict settlement: Harut Sassounian
The official ceremony of president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration was held on January 20 in U.S. Capitol. After the ceremony in his speech the newly elected president stated that the people became the rulers of the nation again.
According to him the government is controlled by the people, “January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now,” he said.
“For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nation’s borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has disappeared over the horizon. One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions upon millions of American workers left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed across the entire world. But that is the past. And now we are looking only to the future,” the 45th US president Trump said, basically reflecting to the US foreign policy, outlining his priorities.
Although president Trump attempts to clearly separate his policy from that of former administration, positioning himself as a figure focused on the US domestic issues, experts aren’t sure that he’ll record breakthroughs in the guidelines of the US foreign policy.
Harut Sassounian, publisher and editor of The California Courier, told “168 Hours” that Donald Trump’s inauguration speech confirmed what he has said many times: he wants the US become a more successful country from the perspective of both internal and external relations.
“The current issue is that he has many supporters, who like his this idea, and the other part of the society doesn’t like, as a result of which the country has been divided into two parts, and it isn’t clear what the developments are going to be like,” Harut Sassounian said.
The latter considers big uncertainty is being maintained in country’s foreign policy. He believes no one can predict what development Russia-USA relations will have, although both Trump and Putin expressed a few times on their good attitude towards one another. “If that goodwill is manifested through concrete steps and the result is observed, it’ll be rather positive from the perspective of world order and international relations. Naturally, if the two large countries find a common language, for small countries like Armenia it’ll be much easier to navigate and find solution to its issues,” Harut Sassounian said.
Reflecting to hopes of the Washington Times publisher that the Republican president may be granted a Nobel Peace Prize for exerting efforts in Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict settlement, Sassounian said it’s more supposition, as Trump is yet starting officiating, and any opinion, mood wasn’t expressed on NK conflict. “He is yet too far from the Noble Prize and NK issue settlement,” he said.
By Araks Martirosyan
