As Rice Prepares to Move Up, Diplomacy May Be on Rise, Too
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Condoleezza Rice's goals vary from restoring America's reputation abroad to promoting free institutions in the Mideast.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put Washington's heft behind new Mideast peace overtures yesterday, scheduling an unexpected meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week.
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By opening the door to a high-level dialogue with Iran and Syria, the United States appears to be embracing a diplomatic strategy that its critics have long said was essential to stabilize Iraq.
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If all goes according to plan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sit down next month with the foreign ministers of Iran and North Korea -- two "axis of evil" nations that the Bush administration has long shunned. And after criticizing her predecessors for pointless diplomatic shuttling in the...
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Chicago Tribune - As she embarks Thursday on her first overseas trip as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice will find one big difference between her old role as one of President Bush's closest White House confidants and her new job as America's ambassador to the world.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Condoleezza Rice takes her shuttle diplomacy to the Palestinian leadership on Thursday as she works to narrow their differences with Israel before Washington hosts a major Middle East peace conference.
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Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.
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Iraq is spearheading a new diplomatic initiative that will invite Iran and Syria to a spring "neighbors conference" that also will include the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Senate committee this afternoon.
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Aid is proving crucial - and may lift America's image.
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She dissected prospects for Middle East peace, railed at Iran, fretted about rebel attacks on Turkey and acknowledged cost overruns at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. But the biggest flap when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday occurred...
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KABUL, Feb. 7 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, during a visit here Thursday, said a "more coherent international approach" is needed in Afghanistan to build on what she described as significant progress.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seeks on Friday to repair ties with Europe over Iraq but her tough line on Iran risks undermining transatlantic attempts to heal the rift on her first trip as the top U.S. diplomat.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will  express her concerns about rule of law and democracy in Russia  on Saturday, as well as pressing her Hardline case over Iran's  nuclear ambitions.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is targeting progress on foreign policy crises on North Korea and Iran, and will press for democratic change in Myanmar in a five-nation Asian tour this month.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will host Libya's foreign minister on Thursday -- the first visit by the top Tripoli diplomat since 1972 -- in a sign of warmer ties between the former foes.
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Condoleezza Rice is set to start senate hearings, to be confirmed as President Bush's next Secretary of State.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's departure -- and President Bush's intention to name Condoleezza Rice as Powell's replacement -- would mark the triumph of a hard-edged approach to diplomacy.