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Secretary Rice (Oct. 4): "I want to thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership. I had a chance to brief the President on the fact that we met last night in the GCC+2 and that much of the conversation was about how to support the Palestinian people in this time of considerable difficulty, how to support President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority...." More from trip
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Deputy Spokesman Tom Casey (Oct. 4): "...Over the course of the last 24 hours, we’ve seen very strong statements from China and Russia, from Korea, Japan, some of the other members of the six-party process, as well as the EU and some of its individual members like France and the U.K. that have very clearly spoken out in calling for restraint and calling for North Korea to end its irresponsible threats and also calling for them to come back to the six-party talks."
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| | ![President Bush meets with Turkey\'s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, on October 2, 2006, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. [© AP Images]](/all/20061004232105im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/thumbs/thumb96_2006_1002_bush1_250.jpg) | | President Bush Meets With Turkish Prime Minister
President Bush: "We just had a extensive and important dialogue about how Turkey and the United States can and must work together to achieve peace. We talked about our determined efforts to fight terror and extremism. We talked about our common efforts to bring stability to the Middle East."
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President Bush: "We believe the world has a responsibility to respond to what this government has called genocide. And Andrew Natsios is going to help rally the world to solve the problem. The United Nations can play an important role in helping us achieve our objective, which is to end human suffering and deprivation. In my view, the United Nations should not wait any longer to approve a blue helmeted force, a U.N. force of peacekeepers to protect the innocent people."
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Robert J. Castro
