Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza "Condi" Riceis an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African American secretary of state, and the second female secretary of state. Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth14 November 1954
CityBirmingham, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I talked in the past to him and my message was it is his responsibility as president of Lebanon to be concerned by the sovereignty of Lebanon.
I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We talk a lot about public diplomacy, .. It's extremely important that we get our message out, but it's also the case that we should not have a monologue with other people. It has to be a conversation, and you can't do that without exchanges and openness.
message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.
The most important step is for all to act with a sense of calm, a sense of statesmanship, ... Violence will achieve nothing, and if all parties are committed to the creation of a calm environment ... that will be very good. That will be our message to all the responsible parties in the region.
The world has to pull together and send a very strong message to the Iraqis.
I think we can't keep moving the bar for the Iraqis.
It goes without saying the United States believes that in order to be credible the UN Security Council has to act.
It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.
We do have to be vigilant and to demonstrate that we know the difficulties that that government is causing for its neighbors. Those relationships are deeply concerning to us and to me. And we are very concerned about a democratically elected leader who governs in an illiberal way.
We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.
We really want to be ready to hit the ground running with this new government when it's ready to go.
Our task now is to build on the momentum of that withdrawal.
Our views concerning Iran are very well known by this time, and we have communicated to the Indian government our concerns about gas pipeline cooperation between Iran and India,
John Bolton is personally committed to the future success of the United Nations, and he will be a strong voice for reform at a time when the United Nations has begun to reform itself to help meet the challenging agenda before the international community.