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Secretary Rice (Jan. 7): "I just want to make one comment also about the humanitarian situation. We have deep concerns about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. I am pleased that the Israelis were able to open a humanitarian corridor and to provide a pause for humanitarian action, but that needs to be repeated again and again because the people of Gaza need to be in a position to be able to get a lifeline to goods and supplies and to sanitation and to medical help." Full Text | P3 + Arab Group Meeting | Cease-Fire Needed in Gaza| Fact Sheet |
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Deputy Secretary Negroponte (Jan. 8): "I first visited China in June of 1972 on a delegation led by Dr. Henry Kissinger at a time when our two countries had lived in political, economic and diplomatic isolation from each other for more than two decades. The changes in our relationship since that time have been truly dramatic. Our two countries have interactions and exchanges across the entire spectrum of human activity on a scale and depth that simply could not have been imagined when we first established diplomatic ties in 1979." Full Text | Deputy Secretary's travel to China | | |  | | Where the Palestinian People Stand
Deputy Spokesman Wood (Jan. 8): "I think the Palestinians, in general, want to have peace and they want to be able to have their own country. They want to be able to live in peace. And what’s going on right now certainly doesn’t help that vision that Palestinians have for themselves, and that vision that others, including the U.S., have for the region...But what’s important is that we solve this present conflict and we go back to the Annapolis process and try to move forward." Full Text | | |  | | Dedication Ceremony for New U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Deputy Secretary Negroponte (Jan. 5): "It is from here that the men and women, civilian and military, will help build the new Iraq." Full Text | Press release | View Video | Photos | |
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Canada
 The relationship between the United States and Canada is the closest and most extensive in the world. It is reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade--the equivalent of $1.5 billion a day in goods--as well as in people-to-people contact. About 300,000 people cross the shared border every day. More...
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