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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Top Stories Full Coverage Most Popular Photos Search Search: World looks forward to new era with US AFP - Wednesday, November 5 PARIS (AFP) - - Hope for a new era in ties with the United States spread worldwide Tuesday with the spotlight fixed on Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama even before results of the presidential vote were known. But despite the focus on the Democrat, many government leaders stressed that the polls -- regardless of whether Obama or his Republican rival John McCain won -- would go down as a watershed in US history. "What I do know is that American leadership is going to be very important in the next critical time and I look forward to working with the next president whoever he is," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Al-Arabiya television. "I think whatever the result of the American election... history has been made in this campaign -- the women coming to the fore, a black candidate coming to the fore." On Monday, Brown said US leadership would be "central" to the future of the crisis-hit global economy. Other European leaders left little doubt about who they were favouring. The head of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, Luxembourg premier Jean-Claude Juncker, said "I would vote Obama". The German and Dutch finance ministers, Peer Steinbrueck and Wouter Bos, were also counting on a victory for Obama. "Obama!" they said when asked who was best placed to win. Spain's Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said he hoped the outcome of the election would renew confidence in the economy and in international relations. In September Zapatero, who has had frosty relations with outgoing US President George W. Bush, thanked Obama for his invitation to meet if he is elected president. The new president will have to work quickly to deal with conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East, and the exiled political supremo of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, said his Palestinian Islamist movement is ready for talks with any new US leader. "Hamas is ready for dialogue with any incoming US president... Democrat Obama or Republican McCain," Meshaal told Jordan's Al-Arab Al-Yawm daily. "We acknowledge that the United States is powerful, but we are more powerful on our territory," he said, adding that Hamas, which is considered a terrorist group by the United States, "welcomes any change in US foreign policies..." Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said he hoped the new US leader would make more headway in the Middle East peace process than his predecessor George W. Bush. "We expect change and we hope that that will bring peace for us," Abbas said. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, an arch-critic of the United States, said an Obama victory would mean "a small light on the horizon," adding "I hope Obama himself powers that light on." If McCain wins, "we know what to expect: struggle and more struggle, resistance and more resistance," Chavez said but predicted that Obama would win "by a landslide." Malaysia's foreign minister Rais Yatim backed Obama, saying a victory for the Democrat would improve America's relations with the world. "I hope Obama wins... due to the need of the world to see the United States represent a more cosmopolitan or universal political attitude and levels of relations," he told reporters. Russian militant nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky, however, was not so impressed by the man who could become the United States' first black president. "Obama, he is the American Gorbachev, he will destroy America, it will not be rebuilt," Zhirinovsky said at a meeting of the ultra-nationalist party he founded, according to Russian news agency Interfax. Credited in the West for leading the former Soviet Union away from Cold War confrontation, Mikhail Gorbachev, now 77, is vilified by many at home for presiding over the collapse of the Soviet Union and ushering in harsh economic reforms. The US embassy in Moscow, which has had rocky relations with Washington in recent months, was hosting more than 500 prominent Russians at an election night party. Guests were offered a choice of badges with pictures of the two candidates, an embassy source cited by the Interfax news agency said, with Obama badges more popular. Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic said that Belgrade was "impatiently" awaiting the outcome of US presidential election, Beta news agency reported. Serbia, too, has been at odds with the United States over Washington's support for Kosovo's independence. "In any case, there will be some changes (in US policy), but how broad these changes will be depends on who will win the elections," Jeremic was quoted as saying. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Americans flock to vote in historic elections Foods to prevent disease? DNA tests confirm death of millionaire flyer Steve Fossett Obama's grandmother, family 'rock', dies on election eve Australia anxious as Indonesia prepares to execute Bali bombers View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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