Mubarak, Blair Mull Mideast Situation

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Mubarak, Blair Mull Mideast Situation

Vacationing British Prime Minister Tony Blair has met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the newyear on the volatile Mideast situation, the British Embassy said Thursday in Cairo.

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Vacationing British Prime Minister Tony Blair has met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the newyear on the volatile Mideast situation, the British Embassy said Thursday in Cairo.

Blair, who is on the new year vacation at Egypt's Rea Sea resortof Sharm el-Sheikh, met unofficially with Mubarak on the Iraqi crisis and the Arab-Israeli conflict on Wednesday, the embassy said, without elaborating.

In December, Blair invited Palestinian leaders to London for a conference due on Jan. 13-14 to discuss Palestinian reform.

According to Egypt's leading newspaper al-Ahram, Blair asked Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whom the United States and Israelhave been trying to sideline, to appoint delegates to the conference.

Blair was quoted as saying Palestinian reform would be conduciveto the finalization of the US-proposed roadmap for Mideast peace, which envisions an independent Palestinian state side by side with Israel by 2005.

British diplomats say invitations have been issued to representatives from the Palestinian civil society, the international quartet, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The quartet, composed of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia, convened a high-level meeting on Dec. 20, but failed to officially launch the roadmap because Washington insisted the plan be put on hold until after Israel's Jan. 28 elections.

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