"U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Israel and the West Bank this month to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace, making her first trip to the region since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, a U.S. official said on Friday.
Rice's July 16-20 trip to Ramallah, Jerusalem and Accra, where she will discuss trade and economic issues with African officials, is her first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in four months.
"The secretary will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah for meetings with officials from the Israeli and the Palestinian Authority governments," the U.S. official told reporters, adding that additional stops were possible......"
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