| | What the Secretary Has Been SayingSecretary Rice recognizes that in its fight for freedom, the U.S. must increase exchanges with the rest of the world--confronting hate, dispelling dangerous myths, and getting out the truth. Through this web page, the Bureau of Public Affairs will release all speeches, testimony, briefings, statements, and other remarks from the Secretary of State as soon as they are available. (Also see daily press briefings by the Department Spokesman and other releases from the Press Relations Office.) | | | Highlights |  Wreath Laying Ceremony to Honor American Diplomats
(Nov. 22): "Today, as we look back on a decade of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is fitting and crucial that we remember those Americans who sacrificed most to make peace possible. Robert Frasure, Joseph Kruzel and Nelson Drew gave their lives to help others escape the miseries of war and this morning we honor their memory." full text | more
Economics and Trade in Asia
(Nov. 16): "[T]he three big issues here are on economics and trade, on security and on the potential for a pandemic. But this all takes place in the context of a region where the number of democracies has grown dramatically..." full text
Meeting With Palestinian President Abbas
(Nov. 14): It's good...to have an opportunity to discuss...a way forward on the roadmap and a way forward toward the establishment of the two states, an independent Palestinian state, a democratic state, living side by side with its Israeli neighbor. [full text] |
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