The White House
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 5, 2009
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Dana Perino
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
11:44 A.M. EST
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Q: Dana, how quickly do you think you can get a cease-fire? And does Secretary Rice have any plans to travel to the region? President Sarkozy is over there trying to broker a deal. Is the U.S. involved?
MS. PERINO: She's been working on this round-the-clock since it started. I think that there's no leader in the world that knows this issue more intimately than Secretary Rice, and she knows the leaders of both the Palestinians and the Israelis very well. And she's been working with the international community to try to establish this. And we welcome the support of our allies in trying to help, because this is not something that the United States alone can solve. This is something that the Israelis, the Palestinians, working within the world community can try to solve together.
Q: Will she go there to try to broker --
MS. PERINO: I don't know of any plans for her to. I know she canceled her trip to go to China so that she could stay here and continue to work on it from here.
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