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...picture, stripped of caption and context, can be made to mean just about anything anyone wants to it to mean - that's why Sean McCormack, press secretary to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, barred photographers from recording the obligatory grip-and-grin at her meeting last week with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the fringes of the Iraqi "neighbor's conference" in Egypt...
...Pictures could leave the impression of a kind of relationship that at this point doesn't exist," a senior Administration hand says of McCormack's extraordinary decree. The Syrians "typically use those sorts of events to try to say, oh, look, no problem." Damascus, he added, had used pictures of President Bashar Assad meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to suggest, at least to casual viewers throughout the Muslim world, that relations between the U.S. and Syria were normalizing...
...rejects the notion that its response to North Korea may be encouraging Iranian defiance. "We don't accept North Korea as a nuclear power, and we don't accept their continued nuclear program as a fait accompli," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday, adding that Iran's technological progress would not change how the U.S. views the situation...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepares to visit the Middle East as early as next week, U.S. officials are predicting that an opportunity may be opening to revive the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Her spokesman, Sean McCormack, declined to last weekend to offer specifics on why such an opportunity may now present itself, but plainly, the conditions for peace can't be divorced from the state of Palestinian internal politics - and the escalating confrontation, if not a brewing civil war, between the Fatah movement of President Abbas and Hamas, the democratically elected governing party...
...Rice fixed on Negroponte. As a longtime career diplomat, he is widely respected at State, but also considered tough-minded enough to carry out Bush's plans for Iraq and apparent intention to beef up the U.S. troop presence there. "He's a diplomat's diplomat," Rice spokesman Sean McCormack said. "He is somebody who is a close colleague to the Secretary. She has a very good working relationship with him. He has the confidence of the President...