Condoleezza Rice

Biography

The first name that his/her parents gave him is formed starting from the expression " idiot dolcezza" , " with douceur" , used in the partitions of music.

Beginnings

The father of Condoleezza Rice was careers adviser teaching and Pasteur in the church Presbytérien; his/her mother taught the music and was an excellent pianist. Rice entered to the Université of Denver at the 15 years age to study the Political sciences, studies which it supplemented at the 19 years age, receiving its diploma of Baccalauréat (Anglo-Saxon university system) with the mention cum laude . One of its professors in international businesses was Josef Korbel, father of Madeleine Albright.

With the University of Stanford, it was professor of Political sciences and trésorière. She belonged to several boards of directors, of which that of the tanker Chevron.

Condoleezza Rice one is protected from Brent Scowcroft. Member of the federal government under President George W. Bush, it was adviser of this one for the businesses of national security as of the January 22nd 2001, remaining, for certain, a " enigma idéologique".

Secretary of State

The November 16th 2004, it was named by the President at the station of Secretary of State, after the resignation of Colin Powell.

Confirmed in January 2005 by the Senate of the United States by 85 votes against 13, it was the first black woman to occupy this station.

In February 2005, one of its first gestures of Secretary of State was outward journey in Europe to try to level the divergences and disagreements euro-American, and to prepare the arrival of George W. Bush. Its only speech was marked the February 8th, with the National institute of Political sciences.

In April 2005, being based on the examples of the Georgia and the Ukraine, it called, with Vilnius, in Lithuania, with the " changement" policy in Bielorussia - country which, according to its dires, would be the " last true dictatorship in the center of Europe". She did not hesitate to meet Belorusse groups favorable to the democracy and the inversion of the mode of President Aliaksandr Loukachenko, the whole under the disapprobative eye of the representatives of Moscow.

In June 2005, in accordance with the inaugural speech of Bush in January 2005 on the expansion of the democracy, Condoleezza Rice tança the Egypt the, however one of most invaluable allied Arabic of the United States to the the Middle East, at the time of a speech to the American University of Cairo. She criticized on this occasion, and in a very severe way, the mode of the president Hosni Mubarak, whose introduction of the multi-partism to the presidential elections was considered to be insufficient: asking elections " free, equitable and transparentes" , " the rule of law in the place of the decrees d'urgence" , " an independent legal system, and not a justice arbitraire" , like " the protection of the peaceful militants of the démocratie". On this occasion, she recognized that “ during sixty years, the United States sought stability at the expense of the democracy in the Middle East and neither one nor the other achieved”.

In July 2005, she announces the creation of the supplementary programme " funds for the diversification of the economy africaine" . (see Political of the United States of America).

In December 2005, within the framework of its rounds in the combined countries, it must justify near the the Council of Europe and of the European public opinion the existence of Secret prisons of the CIA in Europe as well as the use of European airports for transfers of prisoners (" combatants ennemis" according to the American terminology). It is on an offensive mode that it began its European round. Without confirming the existence of secret prison in Eastern Europe, she explained why the United States would use “all the legal weapons to beat the terrorists”, justifying the transfer of terrorist suspects in other countries to be “questioned, held or judged” and inviting the European governments to make proof of responsibility. According to it, these “returnings” would have saved lives, including in Europe.

The summer 2006, because of flashover of the Middle East with the confrontations between Tsahal and the Hezbollah with the Lebanon, Condoleezza Rice plays a central role: it moderates the American position with respect to Israel by asking a cease-fire openly, and obtains short a 48 hours truce on behalf of Israeli the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, after the incident of the bombardment of Cana by Israeli aviation.

In October 2006, it went to make a round in South Korea to give the North Korea on the table of discussions.

Quotations

The Republican party looks me like an individual, not like part of a group. (1980) in connection with its non-adhesion with the American black communautarism.

Iraq is the key of the advent of a the different Middle East, the Middle East in which the people will have found the hope, in which people will control their own life and will know that their political aspirations can be conveyed by legitimate democratic ways. (May 15th 2005)

There are those which say that the democracy leads to chaos, to terror (...). It is the opposite which is true: freedom and the democracy are the only enough strong ideas to overcome hatred, division and violence. (June 21st 2005 - American University of Cairo)

See too

Mrs. Rice stated officellement that she did not wish to present herself with the race with the Presidency of the U.S.A. Of many rumors try to justify this decision by the possibility of an sexual orientation which would classify it in the rows of a minority.

State Department of the United States of America
Karen Hugues

External bonds

Philippe Gélie, Condi Rice wants to carefully transform the world, Le Figaro, January 19th, 2006

Secretary Rice' S view off the world Interview of Cal Thomas

Simple: Condoleezza Rice

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