U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has dismissed as "nonsense" a Washington Post report that he and his deputy Richard Armitage plan to step down in early 2005.
"It's nonsense. I don't know what they are talking about. I serve at the pleasure of the president," Powell on Monday told Radio Sawa, a U.S.-funded Arabic-language broadcast to the Middle East, in an interview, according to a State Department transcript.
Yahoo Aug 4 2003
