U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Bahrain and Kuwait later this month for talks with Arab leaders over Iraq war and the Arab-Israeli peace talks, the State Department announced Wednesday.
Rice is to visit Bahrain on April 21 to meet the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"I would expect they'd talk a lot about Iraq. They will talk about issues of interest in the region," McCormack said.
After that, Rice will attend an international conference in Kuwait on April 22 to promote Iraq's security that involves Iran and other neighbors, the spokesman said.
The scheduled international conference will be attended by Iraq's neighbors, including Iran, UN Security Council permanent members, and other Group of Eight developed nations.
Rice has taken 14 trips to the Middle East in the past 15 months.
Source:Xinhua
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