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| | | State Department Works to Improve Global Travel
Secretary Rice (Apr. 12): "Improving global travel is a public/private partnership and we in the State Department are working hard to do our part. With support from Congress, we have created 515 new consular positions since September 2001. This change, along with others, is helping to make the visa process more transparent, more efficient and hopefully more expeditious." watch | listen
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|  | | President Bush Welcomes President Kufuor of Ghana
President Bush (Apr. 12): "President Kufuor has done a fantastic job for Ghana. He's told the people of his country he'd bring honesty to government, and he has. He told the people of his country that he would work to create a stable economic platform for -- and he has done that, as well. And he's a man of peace. He cares deeply about peace in the region."
| | ![Iranian uranium conversion facility south of capital Tehran, Iran, March 30, 2005. [© AP/WWP]](/all/20060413190036im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/thumbs/thumb96_2006_0412_iran_96.jpg) | | Iran: Additional UN Security Council Action May be Necessary
Secretary Rice (Apr. 12): "Iran has been offered many opportunities to negotiate in good faith -- by the Europeans, by the Russians. They've never taken those opportunities. ....We're consulting now and when the Security Council reconvenes, I think it will be time for action."
| |  | | Secretary Rice Meets with Ambassador-Designate of Iraq
Secretary Rice (Apr. 11): "The struggle is long and hard toward democracy, but it is always worth it and I look forward to working with you for Iraq's complete integration into the international system and for the cementing of the friendship between the United States and Iraq and the peoples of the United States and Iraq." watch | listen
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