Rice sees hope in Mideast truce
100961
DEAD SEA, Jordan  - On her seventh visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in under two years, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came away with no tangible results on Friday but said she saw promise in a Gaza truce.
687348
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice   flew unannounced to Beirut on Monday to seek a "sustainable"   ceasefire in Lebanon, where Hizbollah guerrillas were battling   an Israeli tank incursion in the south.
588430
BERLIN, Feb. 20 -- Over Christmas vacation, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took home a three-foot stack of reports written by the State Department historian on previous efforts by the United States to forge Middle East peace. Rice had read memoirs by her predecessors, but as she embarked on her own effort to help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she decided she needed to study a day-by-day diplomatic narrative of  what had gone wrong in the past....
40380
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday she is cautiously optimistic that it may be possible to begin carrying out a September 2005 agreement on ending North Korea's nuclear programs.
114796
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (JTA) - Listening attentively to Condoleezza Rice describe President Bushâs vision of Middle East peace, more than a few of the 14 Jews gathered at the White House felt a sense of deja vu.
72574
RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinians on Thursday that Washington intended a Middle East peace conference to put them firmly on the road towards statehood.
596029
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice   would return to the Middle East this weekend if needed, U.S.   officials said on Friday, as calls grew across the world for an   end to the war between Israel and Hizbollah.
165259
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has sounded a note of optimism about peace prospects in the coming year provided Palestinians stop violence against Israel.
41202
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with top Israeli officials on Sunday to try to iron out a cease-fire and a deeper political solution to underlying disputes with Lebanon that have long vexed Middle East leaders and exacerbated nearly a month of fighting.
201340
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will launch a new effort to forge a Palestinian state by seeking an endorsement today from a rare Washington meeting of a high-level group that monitors Middle East peace.
137777
RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured Palestinians on Thursday that Washington intended a Middle East peace conference to put them firmly on the road towards statehood but gave no specifics.
175215
Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace negotiations beyond a vague promise to meet again.
585342
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East this weekend to try working out an agreement for a multinational force aimed at bringing an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting.
119386
European Union and Arab leaders have voiced hopes of a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process, following recent statements by Israel and Hamas and a three-day old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
283555
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she was confident a Middle East peace conference would take place this year despite Israeli-Palestinian divisions and no commitment yet from the Saudis to attend.
533181
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
553825
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Saturday Washington was ready to help Middle East peacemaking but the best outcome would be for Israelis and Palestinians to go on making progress on their own.