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Rice hopes to promote reconciliation in Iraq
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Sunday and said she hoped to rally various groups across Iraq's complex sectarian divide.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:32 April 20, 2008
Baghdad: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Sunday and said she hoped to rally various groups across Iraq's complex sectarian divide.
"I would like just to see what we can do to promote that kind of centre that I think is clearly coming together," Rice told reporters travelling with her aboard a US military plane to Baghdad.
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