Rice trades barbs with Russian before Iran meet

there is our condi again, spreading the love..... :eyes:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=17&art_id=18714&sid=7958967&con_type=1

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, traded barbs during bad- tempered talks at a foreign ministers' summit in New York on Iran's nuclear program a week ago.

The exchanges provided a candid introduction to diplomacy for Margaret Beckett, Britain's new foreign secretary, who attended the tetchy session at the end of her first full day in the job.

The row, which further undermines hopes of a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis, reflects deepening rifts between the United States and Russia.

Tension surfaced at a private meeting hosted by Rice in the Waldorf Hotel for the Russian, British, French, German and Chinese foreign ministers, and spilt over into a much-delayed dinner.

One official in Washington said: "It was a pretty extraordinary session and everyone's been talking about it in private since. It was certainly quite an introduction to the rough and tumble of the new job for Mrs Beckett."



Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a news conference as Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergey Lavrov (L), UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2nd from L) and EU representative Javier Solana listen, at the United Nations in New York, May 9, 2006. (Chip East/Reuters)

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here is the earlier thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2282830