AFP - in a rallying cry of the Western world, US President Barack Obama Wednesday denied that the rise of powers such as China, the India and the Brazil meant the inevitable decline in Europe and the United States.
In a speech to both houses of Parliament Britain means to inject new momentum into the transatlantic alliance that has strengthened the global security since the second world war, Obama said Western nations must renew itself.
"Countries such as China, the India and the Brazil are giant growth," Obama told the assembled lawmakers, arguing that, ultimately, the emergence of new powers would benefit everyone.
"This rapid change took place, it is become fashionable in some circles to question if the rise of these nations will accompany the decline of American influence and European in the world," Obama said.
"Perhaps this argument, these nations represent the future and the time for our leadership."
"This argument is false." Now is the time for our leadership. ?
The head of the U.S. joined a select list of the foreign political leaders who have addressed both houses of Parliament to 900 years Westminster Hall, Nelson Mandela and Charles de Gaulle.
Speech by Obama in the historical Hall was long awaited by foreign policy experts and political leaders who have speculated that Obama believes that future lies of America with the new Giants and not his former allies.
But he rejected this idea, saying: "it is the United States, the United Kingdom and our democratic allies that shaped a world in which may emerge new nations and people could thrive."
"And even where the nations most assume the responsibilities of global leadership, our Alliance will remain essential to the objective of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.".
"We remain catalysts more global action.".
But the President said that although the links between the United States, Great Britain and Europe have been forged in two world wars, they had to be redesigned to respond to a new era of threats, including terrorism and climate change.
The President also argued that countries such as his own and his hosts had an inherent advantage in a new global economy that threatens their competitive advantage, but which price a well-educated workforce.
"To maintain" this advantage in a world that is more competitive that ever, we will have to redouble our investments in science and engineering and to renew our national commitments to educate our workforce, Obama said.
Obama also praised NATO, currently fighting in Afghanistan, as the "alliance more successful in human history" and promised to never release the fight against Al-Qaida and to ensure that the Afghanistan is purged of terrorism.
He also said that the West had a crucial interest in the wave of revolt raged in North Africa and the Middle East and called his leadership colleagues to help ensure that the political transitions are successful.
"It will take years before these revolutions reach their conclusion, and there will be difficult days along the way." Power rarely gave up without fighting, "he says.
"Make no mistake: what we have seen in Tehran, Tunis and Tahrir is a desire for the same freedoms we take for granted at home."
"Let so there is no doubt: the United States and the United Kingdom are squarely on with those who long to be free,"Obama said, many of the themes of his major speech on the Arab uprisings taking last week."."
"We will proceed with humility, and knowledge that we do not dictate results abroad." Ultimately, freedom must be won by the people themselves, not imposed from without. ?
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