Great Britain and the United States

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On Wednesday, March 4th 2009, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared in front of the American Congress that his country would be able to work without respite with the United States war against terrorism, peace in the Middle East and the Iranian nuclear issue. Thus, he promised to lend permanently his support to guarantee that there would be no retreat for terrorists. He added, "We will work without a break with you as partners for peace in the Middle East, for a solution of two states which creates a secured and safe Israeli state which exists next to a viable Palestinian state. We will work without respite with you to reduce the threat of a nuclear proliferation and to cut down the nuclear weapons stocks. Our common message to Iran is simple. We are ready to join the International community, but before that, you have to stop your threat and suspend you nuclear programs", insisted Gordon Brown.

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[...] ( ) We will work without respites with you to reduce the threat of a nuclear proliferation and to cut down the nuclear weapons stocks. ( ) Our commun message to Iran is simple. We are ready to join the International community, but before you have to stop your threat and to suspend you nuclear programs”, insisted Gordon Brown. In return, the American President Barack Obama has emphasized the extraordinary gratitude of the Americans towards the British for their engagement in Afghanistan. [...]

[...] Great Britain is one of our closer and firmer allies, and the relation, the link that exists will not break Actually, both are some of the founders of the United Nations, NATO, World Trade Organization and G-8. Furthermore, The United States and Great Britain remain as members of the United Nations Security Council with permanent seats and veto power over all council actions. Then, they were allies during World War World War II, Cold War, first Gulf War and Iraq War. After Barack Obama's promise, Gordon Brown declared that “Alliances can be destroyed, but objective partnerships are indestructible. Friendships can be weakened, but friendship is unshakeable. [...]

[...] Actually, Great Britain is one of the closest allies of the United States and its foreign policy stresses on a straight coordination with the United States. The two countries confer continually on foreign policy issues and world issues and share essential aims of foreign policy and security policy. However, considering the fact that Gordon Brown assures a support to the United States and Barack Obama just thanks Great Britain for its support without promising any support in return, we can ask ourselves if this Anglo-American relation is a one-way relation and actually if it is as important for the Americans as it is for the British. [...]

[...] Barack Obama has qualified as “tremendous” his relationship with Gordon Brown, wanting in a desire to extend friendship between the leaders of the two countries as the links between Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan, and Tony Blair and Bill Clinton followed by George Bush. However, this relation is essentially a British aspiration that exists only when the United States choose to activate it. Furthermore, this posture is unequal. Officially and unofficially, Washington makes it clear that it considers the European Union as a potential threat to the American authority in the world. [...]

[...] And it is a special relation for both Great Britain and the United States. Actually, most of the British governments consider that France, Germany, Italy and Spain have in common a European regional point of view which brings them together. On the other hand, beyond culture and language, Great Britain and the United States share a global point of view. And this point of view prevents Great Britain from completely associating itself with the European countries while establishing the link between the United States and Europe. [...]