The statement came after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice conferred with the United Nations secretary general , Kofi Annan , and top Russian and other European foreign ministers , all of them partners in the quartet of nations that devised and adopted a peace plan , known as the road map , that would lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state .
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