U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
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U.S., Russia to Compete and Cooperate
The relations of the United States and Russia will remain complex but the countries are trying to build newfound trust, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared October 22 at the Office of the Historian's Conference on U.S.-Soviet Relations in the Era of Détente, 1969-1976.
”America’s relationship with Russia will remain large and complex: a mix of cooperation and competition, friendship and friction. This has always been the case. But we have achieved great things together before. We are doing so again today. And I am confident that with patience and hard work, dialogue and understanding, our future can be brighter than our past,” U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced as quoted on the web of the U.S. Department of State.
”But what history teaches us is that it is possible for the United States and Russia to disagree, even to disagree vehemently, but not to let our differences destroy the positive work that we can, and must, do together,” Rice announced, urging to evaluate the relations of two countries in view of historical prospect.
“Our work in the present is being aided immensely by you, our scholars of the past. You are helping Americans and Russians alike to understand our shared experience, both the good and the bad. You are strengthening the friendship between our peoples. And most importantly, you are reminding us that today’s headlines are rarely the same as history’s judgment,” Rice told the conference participants, amid whom were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former CIA Director James Schlessinger.
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