Rice to visit new French leaders, discuss Darfur
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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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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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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and stability in Lebanon when she meets world leaders on Sunday and Monday in Paris, her spokesman said.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Paris Sunday to take part in an international conference on Darfur, hoping to secure &quot;concrete&quot; results to end violence that Washington has termed &quot;genocide.&quot;
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French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said on Monday he planned to make regular visits to the United States as part of a drive led by President Jacques Chirac to improve relations soured by the U.S.-led war in ...
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  will meet foreign ministers of the six conservative Gulf  countries and Jordan while in Egypt on Tuesday, an Egyptian  official said on Friday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday for talks with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that were expected to involve a push for more progress on political reconciliation.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Khartoum on Sunday ahead of talks with President Omar al-Beshir on the crisis in war-torn Darfur.
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The United States, China, France and other key world players meeting Monday are hoping to speed deployment of peacekeepers to Darfur and consolidate sometimes disparate international efforts for the ravaged Sudanese region.
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The United States and other nations  are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping  force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the  bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on  Sunday.
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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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PARIS -- The world has fallen down on the job of ending the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday as she welcomed the fresh energy that France's new conservative-led government has put to the cause.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to fly to Sudan this week to meet government leaders to assess the humanitarian and security crisis.
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In a show of his new foreign policy objectives, the French president called a meeting Monday in an attempt to help bolster the international military presence in Darfur.
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France hosts a meeting of senior officials from more than a dozen countries on Monday aimed at providing funds and other support for international efforts to stabilize Sudan's violent Darfur region.
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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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The prestigious French political science university Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose as the stage for advancing the healing process between the United States and France is considered by some the "Oxford of France" &#151; and produces many of the country's diplomats and public servants.