To all appearances, Mrs. Clinton will accept the offer, though in that case she would have to resign her office in the Senate and give up the harbored hopes of a future presidential run. Here a question arises if Hillary Clinton is ready to sacrifice all that for the position of the country's dominant voice in foreign affairs. The figure of the US Secretary of State has always been more attractive than that of his colleagues from other countries; even the RF Minister of Foreign Affairs is not regarded so excitedly.

If Obama takes this step and if Clinton accepts his offer, she will be the third female Secretary of State of the past 20 years. The first was Madeleine Albright, who is presently advising on the US President-elect Barack Obama and who even spoke for him in the G20 economic summit in Washington. Then the position was taken by Condoleezza Rice, who did a lot for creation of the negative image of the USA abroad. And, finally, Hillary Clinton. Obama was expanding his search beyond other candidates mentioned for the job, among them experienced diplomat Richard Holbrooke, chief architect of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, Senator of Massachusetts John Kerry, and New-Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. According to a number of American experts Barack Obama is inclined to leave John Kerry to his most important post of Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

It would be naive to consider that with a new administration the US foreign policy would be radically changed, as among Obama's aides we find Zbigniew Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright and many others from ex-president Bill Clinton's staff, who will exert pressure on the new president in making regular unpopular decisions on international level. Meanwhile the Washington Post directly writes that the decision on Clinton's appointment may greatly damage Obama administration. "Clinton is the wrong person for that job in this administration. It's not the best use of her talents, and it's certainly not the best fit for this new president. What Obama needs in the person running the State Department is a diplomat who will carry out his foreign policy. He does not need someone who will tell him how to approach the world or be his mentor in international relations. The last thing Obama needs is a secretary of state carving out an independently based foreign policy. He needs an agent, not an author," the paper states. In its turn the Times directly says that "There is an old principle that you shouldn't hire someone you can't fire. That is why Barack Obama would make a huge mistake if he were to pick Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State. She would do the US proud as Secretary of State. But she wouldn't help Mr. Obama as president. She wouldn't flatter him; she wouldn't really defer to him; she might challenge him, even though she couldn't actually upstage him. Foreign policy these days is an intimate affair, carried out between leaders, on the phone, or in faux-friendly fishing trips. The Secretary of State role has become more technical, less independent. Would Mrs. Clinton be happy to play that role? Surely not. It is inevitable that she would disagree with Mr. Obama, on substance as well as style. After all (as he endlessly reminded voters), she backed Iraq at the start, where he opposed it. She will have her own views on the decisions of her husband's presidency (the Middle East, Balkans, North Korea), many well judged, but messy in their legacy. Come to that, Bill will have even stronger views," the English paper reports.

Meanwhile, Armenian Community is awaiting appointment of the new Secretary of State, who will determine the U.S. foreign policy. Representatives of the Community in Washington consider that if Hillary Clinton in fact becomes Secretary of State she will be directed by her husband, ex-President of the USA Bill Clinton.

"Obama seemed more sincere when pledging to recognize the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian community believed him. We should not forget that Mrs. Clinton paid a visit to Turkey as a presidential candidate and there were rumors that some Turkish lobbying organizations sponsored her election campaign," underlined a representative of one of Armenian lobbying organizations.