To the contrary, the Bush Administration feels deeply indebted to the Saudi foreign minister for his participation and that of a representative of a country Ms. Rice's department lists as a state-sponsor of terror: Syria.

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Media accountability in the era of digital technologies is the main topic of the conference's first session, with the participation notably of Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media and Nikos Konstandaras, Managing Editor of the newspaper Kathimerini (Greece).

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That will be launched with the participation of Secretary of Commerce Locke and our U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk, along with Turkish counterparts.

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We have already created spaces within our representative democracy, but we will continue to do that so that there is evermore direct participation from our people in all levels of society.

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