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Secretary Rice (Nov. 6): "It is critical that we continue to advance the pillars established at the Annapolis conference, and those pillars were bilateral negotiations, improvements in the situation on the ground, and institution building for the future Palestinian state, as well as marshaling international and especially regional support for the process." Full Text | Travel Page |
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Under Secretary Jeffery (Nov. 6): "[T]he ACE Awards really do ... reaffirm what is best about American business, American workers, and really the American spirit. The leadership of companies such as today’s recipients, SURevolution, Cargill, those companies that have preceded them as winners of the ACE Award, has never been as important to the United States, to the well-being of the global economy, to the countries in which they have the opportunity to work and serve, as it is now." Full Text | | |  | | Great Lakes Summit
Deputy Spokesman Wood (Nov. 6): "[W]e obviously hope that both the government and the rebels will reach some kind of an agreement so that we can finally bring peace to that very troubled part of Africa. ...what we hope to do and what the other leaders who are in attendance hope to do is to convince both sides that this kind of fighting and violence and instability is not good for not only the Congo, but for the rest of the continent." Full Text | | |  | | American Democracy Takes a Step Forward
Secretary Rice (Nov. 5): "...I did not want this morning to pass without taking note of the extraordinary election last night. This was an exercise in American democracy, of which Americans across the political spectrum are justifiably proud." Full Text | Transition Media Note | | |  | | Your Chance To Ask a Question: Briefing 2.0
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Peru
![Incan ruins at Machu Picchu, Peru, July 2006. [© AP Images]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107200740im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/peru2.jpg) When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization. Centered at Cuzco, the Incan Empire extended over a vast region from northern Ecuador to central Chile. More...
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