Report by the Information Agency “Jahon” on the Speech by the U.S. President Barack Obama at the Cairo University

With the election of President Barack Obama, the public of Uzbekistan quite naturally, carefully keeps track of and notes the new initiatives in the activity of the U.S. administration.

Yet the appearance of Barack Obama at the Cairo University has not become the exclusion.

The speech of Barack Obama is, above all, the confirmation of prevalence of realism and pragmatism in the foreign policy approaches of the U.S. administration, this is an appeal to break with a vicious circle of mistrust and standoff with the Muslim world, this is a message to end with the negative stereotypes about Islam, wherever they may proceed from, and give a start to the new era of relations of the U.S. and Islamic world.

This is a strife to find the new ways of interaction between the United States and Muslims throughout the world in the interests of peace, justice and progress.

It is worth noting the pragmatism of the stated foreign policy course of the administration of Barack Obama in the approaches towards the issue of the so-called policy of “spreading democracy”.

The essence of the newly stated approaches towards this problem lays in that any imposing of one’s own values to other countries with “fully different history and culture” is counterproductive. It is important for oneself to be a good example for imitation, continuing to protect democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, freedom of religion as the universal values, identically equal for all.

Such sober-minded and real approach in addressing very important problems of today will undoubtedly find a positive response among the international community.

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