UK&#39;s Blair Vows to Use G8 to Help Asia Quake Victims, FT Says
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Britain will use its presidency of the Group of Eight nations from next month to help the victims of the Asia earthquake disaster ``in any way we can,&#39;&#39; the Financial Times said, citing Prime Minister Tony Blair&#39;s New Year message.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called for a special meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations to organise relief efforts in areas of Asia battered by earthquakes and tidal ...
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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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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi  called on Thursday for a Group of Eight (G8) meeting so that  the rich nations club could discuss their response to Asia's  tsunami disaster which has killed around 120,000 people.
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World leaders vowed on Thursday to work  more closely to help victims of the worst natural disaster in  living memory and experts warned more carnage from the Indian  Ocean tsunami may be uncovered and the death toll will climb.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa to join the G8 to secure multilateral deals on trade, climate change and Iran, The Guardian newspaper said.
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The United States is set to offer  "all appropriate assistance" to Asian countries hit on Sunday  by a powerful earthquake and the giant waves it generated, a  White House spokesman said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed India's quest for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council as well as having it join talks with G-8 countries on climate change and African development.
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Britain will probably end up giving  hundreds of millions of pounds in aid to victims of the Asian  tsunamis, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued an urgent warning about global warning and called for the Group of Eight, due to hold its next summit in Britain, to adopt a common strategy to tackle the global problem.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was urged today to use Britainâs upcoming presidency of the G8 to broker a global agreement to cancel poor countriesâ debt and double spending on aid.
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MANCHESTER, England -- Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain yesterday handed over leadership of the Labor Party to his finance minister, Gordon Brown, who pledged that Britain would "meet our international obligations" in Afghanistan and the Middle East but called for going beyond military solutions to combating terrorism.
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Britain's Tony Blair pledged on Tuesday to force international action on global warming, despite the reluctance of big powers like the United States.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will represent Britain on Thursday at the Jakarta summit on the Asian tsunami disaster, his office said.
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Britain will use its presidency of the G8 industrialised nations to push for a modern day Marshall Plan delivering full debt relief, trade benefits and financial assistance for highly impoverished countries, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is to  make a statement on his future between 1300 and 1400 GMT on  Thursday, his spokesman said.
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Tony Blair heads to Germany this week for his last G8 summit as prime minister, hoping to secure greater commitments on aid to Africa and movement on a new deal to tackle climate change.