Blair to set out Middle East hope
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The UK prime minister is to outline his vision for progress in the region's peace process, as he begins visiting the area.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair was flying to Washington for talks with President George W. Bush expected to focus on the future of Middle East peace following the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday kicked off his first visit to the Middle East as the international community's new envoy to the region, hoping to add new momentum to fledgling peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - British Prime Minister Tony  Blair said on Wednesday a planned London conference on  Palestinian reform would be a critical step toward Middle East  peace talks and a Palestinian state.
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Tony Blair began his first visit to the Middle East as international envoy on Monday, meeting Israeli leaders who promised to try to revive the long-stalled peace process with the Palestinians.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to meet Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as he continues a trip aimed at breathing new life into the dormant Middle East peace process and bolstering a UN-brokered ceasefire in Lebanon.
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As George W. Bush formulates his plans for a Middle East without Yasser Arafat, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be standing where he says he belongs: right by the U.S. president's side.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Tony Blair said on Tuesday there was a new "moment of opportunity" in the Middle East but cautioned in his first visit as an international envoy against expecting any peace breakthrough soon.
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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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After a year in which the Middle East peace process has all but ground to a halt, Tony Blair will visit Ramallah today in an attempt to kick-start talks.
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Tony Blair said Tuesday he is ready to help bring about a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue, amid claims he is to become an envoy to the region after stepping down as British prime minister.
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Tony Blair says he came to push Mideast peace efforts ahead. But Britain's beleaguered prime minister may be hoping his success eases anger back home over his close ties with the U.S., animosity that led to a rebellion in his own Labour Party.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has left Cairo to continue a regional tour aimed at rekindling the Middle East peace process.
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Tony Blair will fly to Washington this week to launch a new Middle East peace initiative alongside George Bush, in a bid to show he can reap the rewards of the special relationship.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Israel next week for talks with his counterpart Ariel Sharon.
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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 US commitment to the quest for peace in the Middle East.
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Western powers have agreed to name  outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East  envoy, as a bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist  Hamas&#39;s takeover of Gaza, an official in Washington said on  Tuesday.