Rice open to bilateral talks with Iran at Iraq neighbors meeting

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Source: Haaretz

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is open to direct talks with Iran over its role in Iraq when she attends a meeting of Iraq's neighbors and world powers, the State Department said on Thursday.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Rice did not rule out bilateral talks with the Iranians at the ministerial-level meeting, which Iraq's government says is likely early next month at an as-yet undisclosed location.

"We will not exclude any particular diplomatic interaction. There was one at the envoys level ... and the same would hold true for the secretary," McCormack told reporters.

At a meeting in Baghdad last month of Iraq's neighbors, then U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, had brief encounters with both Iranian and Syrian delegates at the talks and McCormack said it was possible Rice could do the same.

Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/845887.html

[rodeodance]

1. te he-------hey Condi ---tired at Pelosi showing you how to be an adult?

[goclark]

2. She better get to stepping in those new shoes

cause Prez Pelosi is stepping and standing tall!

[calimary]

3. Frankly, I'd feel a whole lot better if it were Pelosi conducting those

talks. contradicta doesn't know what the fuck she's doing. Especially if she brings with it her general imperious, and inexcusably ignorant attitude that we don't talk to people who disagree with us.

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4. Hey, it's a good thing.

One result of Pelosi's initiative, maybe.

[leftwingnut]

5. Great. Condasleezee...

handling a 'diplomatic' situation.

I can't wait.

[Supersedeas]

6. Condi left behind in Pelosi's dust...lil' slow on the uptake, Dr. Rice?

[David Zephyr]

7. Condi has P-Envy...That's Pelosi Envy!

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[chelsea0011]

8. And what does Cheney have to say about this?