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Secretary Rice (Oct. 6): "...We have been friends with the Kurdish people for a very long time, and in fact prior to liberation, well prior to liberation, I think helped to provide stability and protection to the Kurdish people. We now are able to have a situation in which we will have a democratic Iraq, not just a democratic Kurdish region. There are guarantees in the constitution of that unified Iraq. People understand the importance of autonomy here in the Kurdish regions. They understand the special history of Kurdistan."
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Under Secretary Burns (Oct. 6): "...It was agreed based on both of those reports that the Iranians are not willing to suspend their enrichment-related programs at Natanz and therefore we have no alternative but to proceed along the second path that we talked about. So consequently, we'll begin next week to debate a sanctions regime at the United Nations." P5+1 Statement
| | ![Secretary Rice, left, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas smile following a news conference at Abbas\' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah October 4, 2006. [© AP Images]](/all/20061008172201im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/thumbs/thumb96_2006_1004_rice7_250.jpg) | | Secretary Rice on Democracy in the Middle East
Secretary Rice: "...We believe that a democratic, modernizing, moderate Middle East is the best chance for peace in this region, it is the best chance for true stability in this region, and it is the only way -- democratic institutions are the only way that people who have differences resolve those differences peacefully."
| | ![Under Secretary Hughes\' visited the Institut du Monde Arabe, at the roundtable with Arab and French journalists October 4, 2006. [State Department photo]](/all/20061008172201im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/thumbs/thumb96_2006_1005_hughes3_96.jpg) | | U.S. and France: Working Together
Under Secretary Hughes (Oct. 5): "France continues to be a vital voice in empowering women around the world. One of the things I have focused on as Under Secretary is women’s empowerment, because as I have traveled the world, I have come to realize it is increasingly women who are arbiters of peace and reconciliation, advocates for education and health, and agents of economic and political change."
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![Secretary Rice, second from right, is greeted by the Prime Minister of the Kurdish region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani, at Irbil International Airport in Irbil, Iraq October 6, 2006. [State Department photo by Josie Duckett]](/all/20061008172201im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/2006_1006_iraq1_2502.jpg)
Carmen Marrero
