Rice to push for Mideast truce through UN
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday she will push for a cease-fire and a "lasting settlement" in the conflict between Lebanon and Israel through a U.N. Security Council resolution this week.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has departed Asia for the Middle East, wagering personal prestige on a bid to sign up Israel and Lebanon to a UN resolution aimed at sidelining Hezbollah.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 18 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday shuttled between meetings with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, seeking to lay the groundwork for a successful three-way summit Monday in the face of Israeli anger at a new Palestinian government that includes the militant group...
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In a sign of a new U.S. push for  Middle East peace, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will  visit the region in early February on her first trip in her new  job, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some US allies agreed yesterday to try to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but clashed over how to handle the Palestinian militant group Hamas and one of its key backers, Syria.
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LONDON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday she was encouraged by a round of furious Mideast diplomacy to prepare a US-hosted peace conference in the fall despite divisions between Israel and the Palestinians that could derail it.
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Amid an intensifying clamor for an end to Israeli-Hezbollah fighting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she was "willing and ready" to return to the Mideast to work on a cease-fire.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice embarks on a new push to revive peace moves between Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday with the United States under pressure from Arab allies to make it a priority.
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Syria could attend an upcoming Middle East peace conference in Washington as part of an Arab League committee, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
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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.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas will appeal to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to soften objections to a Palestinian unity government that could block a new peace push before it starts, aides said on Saturday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a 24-hour Middle East visit on Wednesday to prod Israelis and Palestinians toward narrowing their differences ahead of a conference on Palestinian statehood.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday that the U.S.-backed peace conference proposed for later this year must "advance the cause of a Palestinian state" but acknowledged that much work remains to be done before Israeli and Palestinian officials agree on an agenda...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  began a visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on  Sunday by pledging renewed U.S. commitment to Middle East  peacemaking, which enters a new chapter at a summit this week.
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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.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 20 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the U.S.-backed peace conference proposed for later this year must "advance the cause of a Palestinian state," but she acknowledged that much work remains to be done before Israeli and Palestinian officials agree on an agenda...
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 18 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday shuttled between Palestinian and Israeli leaders, seeking to lay the groundwork for a successful three-way summit Monday in the face of Israeli anger at a new Palestinian government that includes the militant group Hamas.