Rice Hoping to Make European Trip Soon
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Assuming Senate approval of her nomination as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice hopes to make an early February trip to Western Europe to meet with NATO and European Union officials, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit on Tuesday, and a U.S. official said she planned to urge Iraqi leaders to speed up national reconciliation.
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An attack on Iran over its nuclear program is "not on the agenda at this point," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday on her first foreign trip since assuming her new cabinet position.
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Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East and Europe next month on her first trip as U.S. secretary of state to make a new push on Middle East peace and to mend ties with European allies, officials said on Thursday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  called on Tuesday for a new chapter in relations with Europe  after a rift over the Iraq war and began repairing ties with  France, one of the biggest critics of the conflict.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell says he has an ambitious travel schedule in Europe in the weeks ahead to help heal deep US divisions with the continent stemming from the Iraq war.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Europe to promote American policies in Iraq and the Middle East, but the start of her first trip as chief diplomat has been dogged by the spectre of Iran.
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LONDON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday the United States would rebuff European efforts to bring it into negotiations with Iran aimed at preventing the Islamic state from developing nuclear weapons.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, barely settled in her new office, will leave next week on a tour of eight European nations and the Middle East to start tackling a daunting foreign policy agenda, officials said.
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Looking to improve transatlantic ties strained by the war in Iraq, US President George W. Bush has promised to visit Europe &quot;as soon as possible&quot; after his inauguration in January.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended a fence-mending trip to Europe on Thursday having begun repairing transatlantic ties but with nuclear crises looming larger with North Korea and Iran.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Riceâs visit comes after Turkey bombed Kurdish militants in Iraq on Sunday.
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After talks with Italian and Vatican officials in Rome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads for France Tuesday to try to turn around a troubled relationship with the country that led opposition to invasion of Iraq.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.
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LONDON -- In her diplomatic debut, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a US invasion of Iran was ''not on the agenda at this point" and called on Europe to show ''unity of purpose" with the United States in opposing Iran's suspected nuclear ambitions.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a previously unannounced visit, Iraqi officials said.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President  Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery  in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.