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Tony Blair to step back from role as Middle East peace envoy – report
Tony Blair is to step back from his role as a peace envoy for the Middle East, according to a report.
The Financial Times said the former prime minister is preparing to change his role as envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators in a move that could be announced this week. The quartet consists of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US.
Sources told the newspaper that he is embarking on negotiations to “recast” his role while remaining involved in the peace process.
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Last year, a group of former British ambassadors joined a campaign calling for Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy, raising objections to the possible clash with his business interests and a attempts to “absolve himself” of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/15/tony-blair-to-step-back-from-role-as-middle-east-peace-envoy-report
The Financial Times said the former prime minister is preparing to change his role as envoy for the Quartet of Middle East peace negotiators in a move that could be announced this week. The quartet consists of the UN, the EU, Russia and the US.
Sources told the newspaper that he is embarking on negotiations to “recast” his role while remaining involved in the peace process.
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Last year, a group of former British ambassadors joined a campaign calling for Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy, raising objections to the possible clash with his business interests and a attempts to “absolve himself” of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/15/tony-blair-to-step-back-from-role-as-middle-east-peace-envoy-report
Former UK PM accused of seeking $45m UAE contract while working as peace envoy
Multi-million dollar deals with various states in the Middle East have helped Tony Blair amass a fortune thought to be worth an estimated $90m, claims a book published this month.
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Tony Blair Associates, an umbrella organisation founded to coordinate the diplomat’s various consultancy groups, offered its services to the UAE’s Foreign Affairs Ministry in a five-year commercial partnership.
A 25-document about the September 2014 deal obtained by the Sunday Times states that “there is nowhere in the world right now where we could not work or provide the necessary contacts either politically or commercially, should we want to”.
Blair has worked in partnership with various governments whose human rights records have been criticised by international monitors. In 2013, he offered public relations advice to the president of Guinea after security forces shot protesters during anti-government clashes, killing nine people.
- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-uk-pm-sought-45-million-contract-uae-while-working-middle-east-peace-envoy-1424313459#sthash.b4e5Bsbo.dpuf
Multi-million dollar deals with various states in the Middle East have helped Tony Blair amass a fortune thought to be worth an estimated $90m, claims a book published this month.
...
Tony Blair Associates, an umbrella organisation founded to coordinate the diplomat’s various consultancy groups, offered its services to the UAE’s Foreign Affairs Ministry in a five-year commercial partnership.
A 25-document about the September 2014 deal obtained by the Sunday Times states that “there is nowhere in the world right now where we could not work or provide the necessary contacts either politically or commercially, should we want to”.
Blair has worked in partnership with various governments whose human rights records have been criticised by international monitors. In 2013, he offered public relations advice to the president of Guinea after security forces shot protesters during anti-government clashes, killing nine people.
- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/former-uk-pm-sought-45-million-contract-uae-while-working-middle-east-peace-envoy-1424313459#sthash.b4e5Bsbo.dpuf
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