Rice in Asia, Addresses Major International Security Issues
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has assured Asias top diplomats that the United States will continue working for a lasting resolution to the Middle East crisis. But the possibility of action on another pressing security issue, North Koreas nuclear weapons, seems to be fading.
The U.S. secretary of state says she is willing to return to the Middle East if her presence will help end the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants.
I am willing and ready to go back to the Middle East at any time if I think we can move to a sustainable cease-fire that can end the violence, said Ms. Rice.
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During a roundtable discussion with Asian print journalists July 21, Rice said the ARF meeting July 28 will give her an opportunity to continue [the] process of deepening the ties with the member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says history has already given its verdict on Slobodan Milosevic, even though he died before The Hague tribunal could pass judgment. Rice says the former Yugoslav president was one of the most malign forces in Europe.
Secretary Rice says it might have been better if The Hague tribunal had been able to render a judgment on Slobodan Milosevic. But, she says, the final verdict of history is already clear, that the former Yugoslav president was one of the most malign forces in Europe for quite
Linking Europe and Northeast Asia
The Korean War did not end when the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953. Only the shooting stopped. The effects of that war still stand in the way of a stable peace in Northeast Asia.
In Washington, on that same July day, those European countries that sent troops to the Korean War under the U.N. flag signed a joint declaration pledging that they would resist any new armed attack. That declaration is still legally valid and it serves as a reminder that any major military conflict or crisis in Korea would cause immediately serious consequences
Rice meeting with Asia minister protested
Hundreds of anti-U.S. protesters broke through a police cordon and marched to a convention center where Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was meeting Friday with other foreign ministers in Malaysias capital.
Police pushed back most of demonstrators, but small group broke through again, including protest leader Khairy Jamaluddin. He sat on the ground outside the building and refused to leave.
Dr. Rice, I will not leave until you come out! said Khairy, the son-in-law of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
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Mideast diplomacy shifts to Asia as Rice flies in
Efforts to end fighting in Lebanon move to Asia on Thursday as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Malaysia for a regional security meeting.
Rice, arriving from Wednesdays one-day conference in Rome where world powers called for an urgent ceasefire in Lebanon but offered no plan to end the fighting between Israel and Hizbollah guerrillas, will also have talks on North Koreas nuclear plans. Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded southern Lebanon early on Thursday, with the death toll in the 16-day conflict rising to 433 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 51 Israelis.
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