State Department Noon Briefing
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
DAILY PRESS BRIEFING
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2000 1:10 P.M.
(ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
Q: Do you have any comment on the Iraqi-Egyptian decision to turn
their interest sections into embassies? Do you think it's a bad idea,
perhaps?
MR. BOUCHER: I'm not sure I've seen that, so I don't think I do. I
think generally you know what our position has been on relations with
Iraq.
Q: Which is?
MR. BOUCHER: Which I'll get for you.
Q: But you don't have anything new about it?
MR. BOUCHER: No.
Q: So does that mean that the US is unaware of this? I know that my
colleague over here is just finding out about it today, but we
actually knew about it yesterday.
MR. BOUCHER: Well, I congratulate you, and I assume that I'm in the
same boat as your colleague because some of my colleagues are smarter
than me and more aware of these things than I am as well.
Q: I'm surprised - (inaudible) - yesterday.
MR. BOUCHER: Well, that's nice, but I don't think I was asked about
it. And I'll check on it now for you since I have been asked.
(The briefing was concluded at 1:45 P.M.)
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