U.S. Agency for International Development Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2001.ANNEX 3. Europe and Eurasia

摘要

The United States' commitment to maintaining peace and stability in the Europeand Eurasia (E&E) region was strongly reaffirmed in 1999. USAID's quick response to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and its support for post-conflict recovery throughout Southeast Europe helped bring stability to the region within a very short timeframe. As the crisis exposed more starkly the vulnerabilities of these countries to the economic shocks it created, it underscored how far these countries still need to go in their transition to market-led democracies. The crisis and its aftermath also highlighted the high degree of interdependence among these countries and the importance to regional stability of continuing to help them move toward closer integration with Western Europe. In Eurasia, the challenge was to maintain a steady course focused on advancing reform, tailoring assistance programs as needed to take advantage of opportunties to work with reformers at all levels. Consolidating the gains of transition-oriented economic and democratic reforms throughout Europe and Eurasia to assure the irreversibility of change remains an issue of vital interest to the United States.