Believes the mentor of Pifer, Pascual, and Rice

Ukraine will hardly achieve anything by demanding that the American side drop accusations of the alleged supplies of sophisticated early warning systems, the Kolchuha, to Iraq by Ukraine in breach of UN sanctions, said Prof. Coyt Blacker, director of the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University (USA), following his November 13 meeting with Heorhy Kriuchkov and Borys Tarasiuk, heads of the Verkhovna Rada committees on national security and defense. According to him, the United States is interested in continuing its prolific and mutually advantageous bilateral relationship with Ukraine. However, “to overcome this crisis both sides need to ensure the openness of their relations,” the professor stressed. He also expressed hope that, when searching for a way out of this situation, the United States would not raise the issue of sanctions. He went on to say that a solution can always be found.

Prof. Coyt Blacker, a democrat, held a tenured professorship at Stanford University and mentored former and incumbent US ambassadors to Ukraine, Stephen Pifer and Carlos Pascual, as well as Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser under President George W. Bush. Moreover, Prof. Blacker sat on the National Security Council together with Pifer and Pascual. As he put it, the new paradigm of US foreign policy is antiterrorism, as at one time was anticommunism and anti-Sovietism. However, according to him, it is much too early to evaluate the efficacy of this paradigm.