Rice to visit Mid East
Agencies
Washington: US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice is to head to the Middle East in another bid to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Rice will leave for the region on Friday on a tour which will see her visit Israel, the occupied territories, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. She will also tour Britain and Germany during her week long trip.
But before she leaves, a spokesman for the US state department was lowering the expectations for any progress during the trip, saying: "I would expect that this is a trip that is more about laying the foundations for potential future actions than actually coming to closure on any particular agreements."
Officials said Rice would focus on three issues during this week's trip - making progress on Israeli-Palestinian peace, promoting stability in Lebanon and finding ways to help the Iraqi government achieve more stability.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
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