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Except for the controversial Dubai ports deal, the Administration's diplomatic measures have typically received a warm welcome from Congressional Republicans. But over the past two weeks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her undersecretary who negotiated the nuclear cooperation deal, Nicholas Burns, have been treated like used-car dealers...
But the State Department so far has had mixed success convincing influential outside observers on the merits of the deal. After receiving a briefing on the pact by State Department officials last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn-an influential Democrat on defense issues who now co-chairs the Nuclear Threat...
While Washington can't roll back India's nuclear weapons program, senior State Department officials insist that the safeguards they've negotiated would ensure that no American aid ends up in it. What's more, they argue, whereas the U.S. has had no influence at all over any of India...
When a Christian believer in a nation wholly dependent on U.S. support faces trial and possibly execution simply for embracing the same faith as the President of the United States, you'd think that country would be read the riot act. Instead, Washington's response to the trial in Afghanistan...
The backroom wrangling about the wording of the Security Council statement will intensify next Monday when Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and his counterparts from the other Permanent Members of the Security Council plus Germany convene in Manhattan. As she did with Lavrov, Rice is expected to weigh in with...