US seeks Mideast envoy, eyes Blair
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The White House Thursday added duties to its job description for a new Middle East envoy, amid growing speculation outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be up for the job.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet were to meet former prime minister Tony Blair Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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Tony Blair is pushing for a broader mandate in the Middle East that would give him a more direct role in peacemaking, expanding the limited envoy job that world powers gave him last month, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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President Bush has talked with British Prime Minister Tony Blair about taking a role as a Middle East peace envoy after he leaves office next week.
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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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Tony Blair was to meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Tuesday as he continued his fact-finding maiden visit to the region as the new envoy for the Middle East peace Quartet.
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The Bush administration expects  Western powers to agree to name Tony Blair as their Middle East  envoy soon after he steps down as British prime minister on  Wednesday, diplomats said.
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The Bush administration expects Western powers to agree to name Tony Blair as their Middle East envoy soon after he steps down as British prime minister on Wednesday, diplomats said.
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The quartet of Middle East mediators is expected to back U.S. plans to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves and hear from new special envoy Tony Blair when it meets in Portugal on Thursday.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes his first appearance as Mideast envoy Thursday, with international diplomats gathering to discuss ways to breath life into long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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The US secretary of state is in the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders amid fresh diplomacy.
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Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered one of Iran's leading Western analysts.
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The US secretary of state is in the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in a new diplomatic push.
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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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Western powers struggled on Tuesday to finalize a role for outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as Middle East envoy in their bid to revive peace prospects after Islamist Hamas' takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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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.
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The former British prime minister has now begun his new career as a Mideast envoy. How could anyone think heâs the right man for the job?