On Tuesday, US President-elect Donald Trump officially announced he would nominate Tillerson to be the United States’ next secretary of state.
"Mr. Rex Tillerson is a highly capable and experienced executive and brings tremendous international business experience to his candidacy as nominee for Secretary of State… Presumably, he is a pragmatist and perhaps less an ideologue," Derek Norberg, who is also president and founder of the Council of US-Russia Relations, told RIA Novosti, adding that it was too early to comment on the details of Tillerson's policy.
At the same time, the expert added that the nomination of Tillerson could be a signal that Washington's foreign policy would be less "interventionist."
Norberg's words were echoed by position of the vice president of Washington-based Eurasian Center, Earl Rasmussen, who said that the choice made by Trump would allow the United States to use its foreign policy for improvement of relations with other nations and to "build bridges" in relations with such partners.
