Rice: "we and the Saudis have the same goals"

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Tue, Jul 25, 2006 8:21AM

QUESTION: Madam Secretary, can you give us a readout of your meeting with the Saudis this afternoon? And also whether or not -- just what they asked the U.S. to do?

RICE: Sure. We met first with Prince Saud, Prince Bandar and other members of their delegation, Steve Hadley and I did. We then had time with the President. And we talked about what elements might contribute to creating the conditions for ending the violence. And we had very good discussions of that.

Look, I'm not going to go into details. I think that's better left to the diplomacy. But we and the Saudis have the same goals. The Saudis talked a great deal about the importance of Taif and getting a solution that indeed does lead to the fulfillment of the obligations that that were taken already in the signed agreement in 1989 by the various parties. And so a lot of the conversation was about how to move toward the implementation of Taif as a part of this effort.

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