U.S. To Focus On Asia-Pacific For Greater Security: Obama

“American diplomacy, backed by the threat of force, is why Syria’s chemical weapons are being eliminated, and we will continue to work with the international community to usher in the future the Syrian people deserve – a future free of dictatorship, terror and fear,” he said.

Attributing the tough sanctions on Iran for bringing Tehran on the negotiations table, Obama threatened to veto any Congressional Bill that imposes new sanctions on Iran as talks of curtailing the latter’s nuclear weapons programme continue.

Sanctions on Iran
“The sanctions that we put in place helped make this opportunity possible. But let me be clear: if this Congress sends me a new sanctions Bill now that threatens to derail these talks, I will veto it. For the sake of our national security, we must give diplomacy a chance to succeed,” he said.

It is American diplomacy, backed by pressure, that has halted the progress of Iran’s nuclear programme and rolled back parts of it for the very first time in a decade, the U.S. President argued.

Iran has begun to eliminate its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium, he said.

“It is not installing advanced centrifuges. Unprecedented inspections help the world verify, every day, that Iran is not building a bomb,” Obama said.

U.S.’ policy in Afghanistan

On his policy in Afghanistan, Obama said the U.S. may station a small force post-2014 even as America’s longest war will come to an end by this year.

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