Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes

    WASHINGTON - The relentless global problems Towards Barack Obama is about to approach him at a time, to stretch the rope for the first year of a president who promised to "change the world." Is a space of four days of diving in the Obama policy of the United Nations and summit host Pittsburgh is faltering economy in the world. At the international level comes to him and no one is standing, it's paris high.

Obama is under pressure to push along the peace in the Middle East stalled, the United States is serious about the exhibition on climate change and to rally allies against nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea. Concerned leaders of Europe and the rest by pressing Obama to reform the risky economic behavior in the United States and the Congress on board.
It also assumes the load on the two wars now inherited the position of his fingerprint - a dismissal of Iraq, which continues in Afghanistan. Eight years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Obama is an international stature, he always tries to keep Afghanistan al-Qaeda launching pad again.


The talks have the potential to be a galvanizing moment and missed opportunities.

"Leadership is not simply tell people what you want, because the Bush administration has been observed. Leadership is getting people to do what you want them to do, "said Jon Alterman, Senior Fellow, Center for Policy in the Middle East for Strategic and International Studies and a former State Department official, President George W. Bush 's first term.

Obama's chances.

In his speech at the First Assembly of 192 members to share their views on leadership, emphasis on the new brand to highlight the cooperation he has not Bush. As UN ambassador, Susan Rice, described the message: "Everyone has a responsibility. The United States is a leader again. And we expect others to join.

Obama is the first president of the United States, and President of the Security Council, whose rotating presidency of the United States happens to be in the hands of this month, the annual meeting of the General Assembly. He expects to be away from the summit resolution Arms control that advances the goals of its nuclear weapons free world.

The measure tries to set fire to Iran and North Korea do not blame any country.

His domestic agenda to consume health care, Obama is pressing world leaders to put more muscle to fight climate change. He tries to do exactly this week, including a speech at the Climate Conference of the United Nations.

Time presses, however, that the United States for influence. The international conference is planned for December in Denmark, a new global climate agreement on the contract. Although Parliament approved a bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, the decision may discolor the Senate next year.

Perhaps as important as the speeches are discussions of the world never sees.

Obama, who arrived in New York on Monday of the annual collection of the United Nations, met privately with leaders of Russia, China and Japan. Less formal sessions held throughout the week.

Showcase for the new American president is visiting.

Only in its first year, Obama has done through the summits with the leaders of the world's top 20 industrialized countries and eight major industrial powers and the Western Hemisphere heads, leaders of Russia and the NATO. The president is not afraid to asked the UN to take "a big hard problems more efficiently.

When the focus moves to Pittsburgh, Obama Group of 20 summit, to lead rich countries and developing countries, representing 80 percent of global economic output. Although the U.S. and costly efforts earlier this year helped to stop the economic downturn is an enormous amount of work left and a large departments on how to proceed.

"We must all act responsibly on behalf of a better economic future," Obama said Saturday the radio and the Internet, which seemed to approach the G20 summit and warned against complacency.

EU leaders are frustrated that the American operation of economic regulation and limit the directors of the bank to pay. Just before Obama Travel down the plan and the Federal Reserve, which for the first time the police how banks pay for executives is to minimize investment risky.

Obama himself has to drive to get Congress moving - he just went to Wall Street to say so much. But the work is unlikely to meet their peers.

"You will hear a strong concern that the experience is not learned," said Heather Conley, who served as Foreign Minister of Bush is currently the program CSIS think tank. He said that Europeans are afraid of emergency has been lost, and they ask: "Americans, what are you doing this?

The events can affect the final days of the agenda of Obama, too.

President of China has punished more than the tires are exported to the United States, indicating the violation of trade rules. The transition is an economic ally, enraged and fanned fears that the new protectionism.

He just destroyed the era of Bush's plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, the exchange is a more mobile, designed to change the threat from Iran. This change is welcome in Russia, who said Obama had nothing to worry about first, but the cause consternation in the region.

His special envoy to the Middle East, did not bridge differences between Israelis and Palestinians, expressed uncertainty about the recent talks and restoration of American influence on them. The White House said Saturday that Obama will host a meeting on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.

And then there's the shadow of Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday, while the Jews had doubts really happened, and assured him that Israel was created "to lie and claim the mythical". This imposes a threatening tone, that the UN - Ahmadinejad is here - that the United States and five other countries in late October 1 Conference on Iran.

Biggest challenge facing Obama communications to ensure that your message is king.

This means, such as rice, she tries to "bridge the divide between old and oppose the efforts of a handful of usual spoilers.