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US extends cooperation post Hugo's re-election Press Trust of India Washington, December 5, 2006 The United States extended an offer of cooperation to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after the vituperatively anti-American leftist won reelection. "President Chavez has been re-elected for another term in office, and we would hope that we could have a positive, constructive relationship with the government of Venezuela," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Monday. "We, ourselves, will look for opportunities to work closely with the Venezuelan government," McCormack said. He noted that there had been "well reported frictions on some issues" with Chavez, who in...

Excerpt from Daily Press Briefing: QUESTION: Yes? Can you say anything about a U.S. response or a U.S. reaction to this uproar in Europe over the Prophet Muhammad pictures? Do you have any reaction to it? Are you concerned that the violence is going to spread and make everything just -- MR. MCCORMACK: I haven't seen any -- first of all, this is matter of fact. I haven't seen it. I have seen a lot of protests. I've seen a great deal of distress expressed by Muslims across the globe. The Muslims around the world have expressed the fact that...

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) has chosen a White House veteran to succeed Richard Boucher, who became a public face of U.S. Iraq (news - web sites) war policy, as the State Department's chief spokesman, the White House said on Thursday.   Bush will nominate Sean McCormack as assistant secretary of state for public affairs, which will make him one of the most visible mouthpieces for U.S. diplomacy. McCormack, 40, served as spokesman for then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) and as deputy White House press secretary for foreign policy before Rice...