Middle East high on Bush-Blair agenda
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President Bush was meeting Friday with his staunchest ally in the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the first world leader to visit the White House since last week&#39;s election.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes to inject momentum into the stalled Middle East peace process when he meets President Bush in Washington later this week, but he is not expecting an immediate new initiative, officials said Monday.
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President Bush's first postelection meeting with a foreign leader comes this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a staunch ally on Iraq, is due for two days of discussions at the White House.
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President Bush has spoken to UK PM Tony Blair about him becoming a Mid-East envoy, a White House official says.
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WASHINGTON  - British Prime Minister Tony Blair sought consensus with U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday to make peace in the Middle East an urgent priority, exploring whether the death of Yasser Arafat offers new avenues for restarting Israeli-Palestinian talks.
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WASHINGTON  - President George W. Bush's first post-election meeting with a foreign leader comes this week when British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a staunch ally on Iraq, is due at the White House for two days, officials said Saturday.
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TONY BLAIR will press George W Bush to join a new push to revive the Middle East peace process when he flies to Washington this week for his first face-to-face talks with the US president since his re-election.
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President Bush will meet next week with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, a principal ally in Iraq, in his first meeting with a foreign leader since his re-election, the White House said on Saturday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  seek this week to use his support for President Bush in Iraq as  a lever for greater U.S. commitment to the quest for peace in  the Middle East.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair renewed his pledge to work with President Bush on the war on terrorism and to revitalize the Middle East peace process Wednesday, expressing hope that the U.S. leader's election victory would help mend a divided world.
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George Bush embarks on round of talks to push attendance at Middle East peace conference.
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President Bush is expected to give an outline of his vision for a Middle East without Yasser Arafat on Friday, with his most loyal ally Tony Blair by his side.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is to hold talks with President Bush in Washington next week, Downing Street has said. The two will meet on Thursday and Friday, and are likely to focus on Iraq and the Middle East peace process.
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President Bush has spoken to UK PM Tony Blair about him becoming a Mid East envoy, a White House official says.
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President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a return visit soon afterward to keep up pressure on Israeli and the Palestinians to start peace negotiations.
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US President George W Bush is expected to defend his Middle East policy at the UN General Assembly.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his quest to bring peace to the Middle East, unveiling plans for a conference to prepare the Palestinians for statehood, during a landmark West Bank visit.