ARABS-ISRAEL - Jan. 8 - Blair Pushes On With Plans To Host Palestinian Conference.In a speech to a gathering of British ambassadors, British PM Tony Blair Noun 1. Tony Blair - British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair invites PA representatives for the Jan. 14 talks with a "Quartet" of Middle East mediators - the US, EU, UN and Russia - to discuss Palestinian reforms demanded by Washington as a condition for statehood state·hood n. The status of being a state, especially of the United States, rather than being a territory or dependency. . Blair says commitment to an elusive Middle East peace was essential to winning support for a US-led drive to disarm Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. of suspected weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . He says: "The reason there is opposition over our stance on Iraq has less to do with any love of Saddam, but over a sense of double standards. The Middle East peace process remains essential to any understanding with the Muslim and Arab World". The US backed London's call for the meeting to go ahead. But Israeli Ambassador to London Zvi Shtauber told BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. radio there was no point in such talks while Arafat remained in power. He said: "It is not constructive that Yasser Arafat should nominate the people who should deal with reforms in the government of Yasser Arafat". |
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