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Condoleezza Rice cancels plan to visit UAE, Oman
Washington, October 15, SPA -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice said Tuesday she cancelled plans to visit the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and Oman this week and instead will stay in Washington
to help address the global finance crisis.
Rice said Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will represent
the United States at the fifth annual Forum for the Future in Abu
Dhabi on October 17-19, adding she was “disappointed” she cannot
attend the event.
“President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are
obviously leading this very important effort [on the financial
crisis], but there is an international aspect,” Rice told reporters
in Washington. “I am doing what I can to help out.”
Last week, the State Department announced that Rice would travel to
the Gulf region, stopping in Muscat before heading to the forum in
Abu Dhabi.
The forum is co-chaired this year by the UAE and Japan, which holds
the rotating presidency of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized
countries.
--SPA
Rice said Tuesday she cancelled plans to visit the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) and Oman this week and instead will stay in Washington
to help address the global finance crisis.
Rice said Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will represent
the United States at the fifth annual Forum for the Future in Abu
Dhabi on October 17-19, adding she was “disappointed” she cannot
attend the event.
“President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are
obviously leading this very important effort [on the financial
crisis], but there is an international aspect,” Rice told reporters
in Washington. “I am doing what I can to help out.”
Last week, the State Department announced that Rice would travel to
the Gulf region, stopping in Muscat before heading to the forum in
Abu Dhabi.
The forum is co-chaired this year by the UAE and Japan, which holds
the rotating presidency of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized
countries.
--SPA