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Secretary Rice: "There is no greater honor than to serve this country. There’s no greater challenge, but no greater honor than to try to work through in really, really difficult and consequential times, new solutions to problems that perhaps weren’t even on the horizon. There’s no greater honor than to go to places where we have good friends who share our values and work out common strategies trying to deal with the most difficult of problems. And there’s no greater honor than to see from the point of view of the Secretary of State what really makes us great. People fear our great power, respect, maybe don’t always like it when we do use it. People, even in difficult economic times, still admire, maybe even envy a little bit, the entrepreneurship of this country and its capacity to be productive. But what really draws people to this country is that anybody can come here and go from modest circumstances to extraordinary achievement." Full Text |
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Acting Deputy Spokesman Duguid (Dec. 29): "We support and respect President Yusuf’s decision to resign as President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and welcome his commitment to continue supporting the Djibouti peace process." Full Text | | |  | | Situation in Gaza
Secretary Rice (Dec. 27): "The U.S. is deeply concerned about the escalating violence in Gaza. We strongly condemn the repeated rocket and mortar attacks against Israel and hold Hamas responsible for breaking the ceasefire and for the renewal of violence there." Full Text | | |  | | Human Rights Oppressed in Iran
Spokesman McCormack (Dec. 23): "The United States condemns the closing of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights and urges Iranian authorities to allow this and similar civil society organizations to operate free of oppression. On December 21, Iranian authorities closed down the civil society organization of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi just prior to a ceremony celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights." Full Text | | |  | | U.S. Fosters Strong Relationships in Latin America
Secretary Rice (Dec. 22): "[W]e’re now past that period in the Cold War where the United States saw Latin America through the prism of a global struggle with the Soviet Union. And it has freed American policy to have good friends on the left and good friends on the right, as long as they are friends who are governing democratically, who are promoting free trade, who are looking to open their markets and to deliver for their people." Full Text | |
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Monaco
![Tourists walk past the Cathedral of Monaco, June 3, 2004. [© AP Images]](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090101115241im_/http://www.state.gov/cms_images/monaco_100.jpg) The Principality of Monaco is the second-smallest independent state in the world, after the Holy See (Vatican City). It is located on the Mediterranean coast, 11 mi. east of Nice, France, and is surrounded on three sides by France. More...
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