Albright Looking Forward To NATO Summit
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is a co-chair of the Chicago NATO Host Committee. And she told a Chicago crowd Wednesday that she is looking forward to the summit on May 20-21.
As WBBM Newsradio's Bob Roberts reports, Albright said the world is changing rapidly, and said regime change is underway in most of the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Russia recently completed elections. The French vote this weekend. The U.S. campaign is well underway. China's leadership is changing and she said that there are indications that Britain may have early elections. Albright said in that world of change, the NATO summit is a sign of continuity.
"The idea of being together, trying to make a decision and show unity, is very important," she said, during an address to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at a sold-out Auditorium Theatre.
"I think Chicago will have an interesting time with it," she said.
Albright said Russia is still trying to find its post-Soviet identity and said she does not trust President Vladimir Putin. That is a problem, she said, because of Russia's support for the Assad regime in Syria.
She said trade sanctions are working against Iran but have long outlived their usefulness in Cuba, although she said the Cuban embargo may remain in place because it is no longer by executive order, but has been written into law.
And she said no one appears to have good intelligence on the new North Korean regime.
