Bush May Call for Major European Role in Post-Arafat Peace Effort
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President Bush is expected to call on Europe to assume a key role in helping the new Palestinian leadership build and support institutions and prepare for negotiations
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PARIS Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, who is having medical tests in a French military hospital, hopes that President George W. Bush will adopt a new &quot;policy of peace&quot; in the Middle East, an aide said Wednesday.
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President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair say there is a new opportunity for peace in the Middle East, following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Major Western powers met on Tuesday to define the role outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair could play as their Middle East envoy in a bid to revive peace prospects after Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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As the Palestinians' main donor and Israel's top commercial partner, Europe could be a major player in pushing to restart the stalled Middle East peace process in the post-Yasser Arafat era.
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President Bush vowed on Friday to  use the next four years to help establish a Palestinian state,  and he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said they would  help craft a post-Arafat strategy for making it happen.
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The European Union urged re-elected  President Bush on Friday to make a fresh start in transatlantic  cooperation, but internal EU differences over ties with  Washington refused to die down.
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The Bush administration is preparing with European allies to help the Palestinian Authority organize January elections and improve its security forces to crack down on
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Tony Blairâs demand for President Bush to make peace in the Middle East a key priority of his second term has been heard âloud and clearâ in Washington, George Bush senior said today.
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European leaders urged President Bush to work closely with America&#39;s allies on issues like terrorism and the environment in his second term, while critics of the president worried re-election would embolden him to pursue conservative policies
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Perhaps through his death, Yasser Arafat has created a new opportunity for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As the former Palestinian leader was buried on Friday, President Bush and British Prime Minister
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WASHINGTON (CP) - President George W. Bush and his staunch Iraq ally, Britain's Tony Blair, presented a united front Friday on enlisting Europe's help for a new push to establish a peaceful Palestinian state.
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Mr. Bush told reporters Friday after meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he sees a âgreat chanceâ for creating a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the death of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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LONDON: Britain should play a more active role to help revive the Middle East peace process to make up for the disengagement of the US.
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President Bush yesterday signaled deeper US engagement in Middle East peace efforts, saying he sees an &quot;opening for peace&quot; now that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is near death.
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President Bush expressed American condolences late on Wednesday for the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called it "a significant moment" for the Palestinians in their bid for peace and an independent state.
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President Bush on Friday set a four-year goal of seeing a Palestinian state established and he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to mobilize international support to help make it happen now that Yasser Arafat is dead.