US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met
with Spanish Foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos Monday for talks on Latin
America, following a summit in Peru.
Moratinos was in Washington after attending the Latin American-EU- Caribbean
summit last week in Lima, Peru.
Rice and Moratinos were to discuss relations in the western hemisphere and the
Middle East peace process, as well as the NATO effort in Afghanistan to defeat
Taliban insurgents and root out the terrorist network al-Qaeda, US State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, dpa
reported.