Blair makes Middle East key test
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Tony Blair says he will feel it is a personal failure if the Middle East peace process cannot be restarted.
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Tony Blair begins his first visit to the region as Middle East envoy on Monday, hoping he can help turn around 60 years of peacemaking failures since Britain ended its mandate over Palestine.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair told his Cabinet today that the re-election of President George Bush gave a fresh chance to move the Middle East peace process forward.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, flying to Washington on Thursday for talks with President Bush, said the international community must make peace in the Middle East its highest priority.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair will  call on Wednesday for Middle East states to rein in what he  calls the threat from Iran and to help advance peacemaking  between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Tony Blair, the new special envoy for the Middle East peace Quartet, will meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Tuesday during his first visit to the region in his new role, officials said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched the first Mideast peace initiative since the death of Yasser Arafat, arriving for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders about a London conference.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at the Prime Minister&#39;s office in Jerusalem Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004.
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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.
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Tony Blair said on Tuesday he saw possibilities in his first visit to the Middle East as an international envoy but cautioned it was too early to tell whether they could be translated into concrete results.
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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 arrived in Egypt on Saturday on a Middle East peace drive after predicting that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would find a way to break a deadlock between rival factions during his trip.
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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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JERUSALEM -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders that were notable less for what was said and done than for sending a message of the West&#39;s desire to re-engage with the Middle East peace process.
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Tony Blair will take on the role of go-between for the Israelis and Palestinians as he tries to keep up the momentum of the Middle East peace process on a two-day visit to the region starting today.
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Tony Blair should be given a broader role as Middle East envoy, say Palestinian negotiators.
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The prime minister, Tony Blair, right, with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, at a Jerusalem press conference. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP.