| U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, right, shakes hands with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Wednesday, July 23, 2008, during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, Ministerial Meeting held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. Rice held talks with Lavrov Wednesday before meeting North Korea's top diplomat in what will be the Bush administration's highest-level contact with the Stalinist state in four years. (AP Photo) |