Rice begins work on 'great cause'
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Condoleezza Rice starts her first day as US secretary of state, pledging to put diplomacy at the heart of US foreign policy.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 6 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders on the eve of their first meeting in more than four years as the United States seeks to spur renewed movement in the stalled peace process.
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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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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Condoleezza Rice begins her  first visit as secretary of state to the heart of the Middle  East conflict Sunday with Israelis and Palestinians already set  on a new course of dialogue after four years of violence.
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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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BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the embattled Iraqi government on Thursday to accelerate efforts to foster national reconciliation and help end sectarian violence.
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The United States is building a partnership with Africa to pull the continent out of poverty, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday as she lent her support to moves to boost U.S.-African trade.
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Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice flew to Baghdad, hoping to build momentum behind reconciliation efforts.
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Providing more humanitarian relief and freer movement across borders are ways the U.S. may be able to help improve the lives of Palestinians, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice keeps trying, but she can't put those questions about presidential ambitions to rest.
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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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The message was sometimes blunt as Condoleezza Rice made her case for a new start with disgruntled European allies on her first trip abroad as President Bush's chief diplomat.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Kenya in an attempt to end the political crisis.
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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....
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here late Tuesday for a G8 foreign ministers meeting where she hopes to gain support for UN resolutions on Iran&#39;s nuclear programme, Kosovo and Darfur.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration will fight efforts to curb billions of dollars in US aid to Pakistan while warning President Pervez Musharraf he must support and promote democracy
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  arrived in Spain for what is meant to be a fence-mending trip  on Friday but her first words were of reproach for its policy  of engaging Cuba.