We invite the premiere of game diaries to continue the panorama today. In the meantime, we open our arms, the three baltic extinctions are closing in their notneighborly little world, points of the troops and security equipment are recognized by almost a thousand belarusians. In lithuania , the deprivers of the regime have not fled, and the degree rises for the second precasting day and dont miss your chance. Rebuff found by a new star continues more details at my colleagues. It remains until the Opening Ceremony of the second games of the cis countries that the readiness is maximum, while the multisport forum has already started in the capital. Alina gornasko started the fight for medals in other cities of the competition, all over the country tomorrow they will see athletes. Igor regions are in anticipation of sports battles. In gomel, judokas will meet in a fight in their skills; in grodno, weightlifters will show, and the medal prospects of our athletes and festive surroundings in
Hard time trying to sell the idea of democracy abroad. Thank you very much. Thanks very much. Tom . Well, thanks, will. And thanks for the invitation to join this conversation this morning. In the spirit of in which ambassador basora launched us a little while ago, ive been thinking about making there a really interactive kind of event. So ive been listening intently to each of the three previous speaker nz it may seem at some level that they presented alternative schools of thought or approach to this question. So im not sure im allowed to say this but i agree with all of them. I agree with in particular with the way nick framed the tradeoffs that we often face in government between our understandings of potential shortterm benefit or shortterm need versus longterm. Thats the world in which i live every day in the u. S. Government as we sit around tables not usually as pretty as this but trying to talk about how we integrate our interests in strengthening democratic governs and respec
In some countries, its hard to almost immediately after their own democratic breakthrough and it was championed by some of the same people who organized those domestic breakthroughs. Civil society has played an important and driving role in terms of democracy promotion, both as implementers of such support abroad as well as champions and advocates for their states to invest in supporting democraticization abroad. They have leveraged their bilateral challenges as well as various citizen diplomacy forums to support democraticization abroad and have leveraged membership. Lastly, a number of Eastern European countries have started to provide assistance, but more on the technical than financial side, so, in some, we have several of these countries that have they have exercised diplomacy and theyre their efforts have tended to be limited in terms of the number of cpms and geographics recipients to a number of countries. Those are points ill come back to later in my presentation, so this poin
Since azerbaijans independence, in 1991, u. S. Aid has spent 55 million on programs to make the country more democratic. The country remains more undemocratic and is becoming more and more authoritarian. The u. S. Government presses on with multimilliondollars programs in azerbaijan. In 2012 us aid issues a 1. 5 million call, i want you to listen to this. That would enable key Society Organizations to better respond to the president s vision and calls for more meaningful and state Civil Society partnership fulfilling the governments commitments to various International Human rights instruments, end quote. The idea of u. S. Taxpayer dollars going to implement the supposed democratic vision of azerbaijans authoritarian president reinforces the notion that foreign aid is a scam. Ill give you an example from kazakhstan. This is a typical program. Youll see this in every part of the world. Im a eurasia specialist. My examples from the region, usaid worked with the 1. 5 million to increase t
Opportunity to give me a line rehearsed to please u. S. Donors. Its evidence that i collected indirectly and that came up in conversations about central and Eastern European democracy promotion. Again, my conclusions are not to dispute problems with u. S. Democracy promotion or its unintended negative consequences. But just to highlight that it can and has mattered and that its an investment whose payoffs go up and down in the short and long term as we saw in the first panel. But its an important investment. In conclusion, allow me to return to the merits and limitations of the central and Eastern Europeans as democracy promoters. Again, to discover those i talked to their recipients in their neighborhood. Those recipients highlighted three important merits. The first one is the firsthand experience with democratizatio fl that they have. A lot of the individuals were the organizing source of the domestic breakthroughs. They have this unique experience with this as well as moral authori