As Hillary departs for the Balkans on their anniversary day causing a little tug at my heartstrings, her agenda there is being painted broadly as a follow-up to Bill's Presidential mission. Happy Anniversary to a beautiful couple, and Godspeed Mme. Secretary on your mission.
PREVIEW-Hillary Clinton takes on Balkan puzzle
Source: Reuters
*U.S. sees fragile gains, need for progress in Balkans *Clinton seeks to buttress Bosnia, push EU membership *U.S. wants Serbia, Kosovo talks to stabilize region
By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travels to the Balkans on Monday, seeking to buttress the fragile peace that was one of her husband's chief foreign policy achievements as president. Clinton will urge reconciliation for Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, which battled through the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s and dominated the news when former U.S. President Bill Clinton was in office. For Hillary Clinton the Balkan puzzle is a familiar challenge -- although it is now she, and not her husband, who speaks for Washington as it attempts to bring the unstable region more closely into Europe's fold. "She is on a family mission that hasn't been completed yet," said Janusz Bugajski, director of the New European Democracies project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. "They will not be able to say mission accomplished until all the loose ends are accounted for."Read more>>>>
