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MR. MCCORMACK: Janine Zacharia from Bloomberg.

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, after the vote at the United Nations on the third tranche of sanctions on Iran, the P-5+1 issued a statement that they're prepared to future - "further development," rather, of a package of incentives for Iran. Will you be discussing that tonight with the EU-3? Can you give us any - shed light on that?

And along the lines of Iran, today, in Egypt, the Saudi Foreign Minister met with the Iranian Foreign Minister, the Qatari Prime Minister, the UAE Prime Minister, both in Tehran recently. Is this Arab rapprochement with Iran undercutting your efforts to isolate Iran?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, I would not, Janine, try to label anything in terms of rapprochement, non-rapprochement. I think it's a mistake. These are all countries that have varying degrees of interaction with Iran. But Iran's isolation is that it sits under three Security Council resolutions, Chapter 7 Security Council resolutions, that say that Iran is in violation of international obligations and in violation of the will of the international community. That is the clear indication of Iran's isolation.

The letter to which you - or the statement to which you referred is simply an affirmation of the fact that the EU-3 plus the United States, China, and Russia continue to follow a dual-track strategy, which means that there is, of course, the track of Security Council resolutions, the one that we've just passed that will continue to impose consequences upon Iran for its continued defiance of the international community and, at the same time, offers a path should Iran decide that it wishes to take it that would be a path of negotiation, a path of engagement with the international community, including a path that would lead to a change in 28 years of American policy, so that with the suspension of Iran's enrichment and reprocessing activities the United States as a part of the group of six could sit down with the Iranians face-to-face. And we've made very clear that we are prepared to do that, I'm prepared to do that, at any time that those conditions are met. So Iran is isolating itself, and it remains isolated because those Chapter 7 resolutions are a very clear indication of that.

QUESTION: (Off-mike.)

SECRETARY RICE: We are continuing to talk about what the path would look like for Iran should it choose the path of negotiation. But I think that if you looked at the document that was - a June 2006 document, you would see that there is a lot on the table with Iran. To the degree that the Iranians want to know more about it or want to know in greater depth what those elements mean or how they might unfold, I'm sure that people are prepared to talk to them about it.

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