quality coffee and gives growers more marketing information so they can seek better prices, Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Wayne said in September. Washington's re-entry became final on Thursday when documents were deposited at the United Nations, Rice said. The United States has also acceded to the 2001 International Coffee Agreement, which aims to foster a "sustainable coffee economy.' Rice was in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday on her first foreign trip as U.S. secretary of state.
