中東への積極関与強調 米国務長官、ダボスで演説 - MSN産経ニュース
ケリー氏はエネルギー分野での中東への依存度低下などを背景に「米国が中東から手を引くとの“神話”がある」とした上で、それを否定。「中東には揺るぎない利益があり、今後も尽力し続ける」と述べた。
米国との関係改善に意欲を示しているイランのロウハニ大統領に対しては「（友好の）メッセージは歓迎するが、言葉だけでは意味がない」と指摘。イランに具体的な行動を求めた。
Secretary of State Kerry rejects notion U.S. is disengaging from world | Reuters
Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed on Friday as "a myth" suggestions that the United States was withdrawing from world affairs.
"I'm perplexed by claims I occasionally hear that somehow America is disengaging from the world - this myth that America is pulling back, or giving up, or standing down. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth," Kerry told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
He said it was based on a false assumption that the only tool of U.S. influence was its military. "If we don't have a huge troop presence or aren't brandishing an immediate threat of force, we are somehow absent from the arena," Kerry said.
"You can't find another country - not one country - as proactively engaged or that is partnering with so many Middle Eastern countries as constructively as we are, on so many high-stake fronts," he said.
And Kerry defended an agreement among world powers and Iran to curtail Tehran's nuclear program, although he insisted that Iran's compliance needed to be verified.
"Iran must meet this test," Kerry said. "If it does, the Middle East will be a safer place, free from the fear of a nuclear arms race. And diplomatic engagement, backed by sanctions and other options, will have proved its worth."
