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Brussels : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that the US supports Egypt’s efforts to talk to Hamas to bring calm to the region.
“I talked with the Egyptians and we fully expect them to carry out the efforts that they have said they would carry out to try to bring calm in the region and try to improve the situation in Gaza,” she told a joint press conference with EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner here Thursday.
“Egypt is a good ally in this effort to help the Annapolis solution come into being and I trust that what the Egyptians are doing is exactly in that course.”
Rice said that “it is extremely important that there is an effort to bring calm and it is extremely important that the negotiations continue. I am pleased that the parties said yesterday (Wednesday) that they want to resume the negotiations.”
Rice was in Brussels to attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting and also participate in an international women’s conference Thursday.