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Tourism can help regenerate West Bank, says Tony Blair on visit to Sebastia
Quartet Representative Tony Blair visited the Sebastia Tourism Site on Tuesday morning as part of his efforts to revive tourism in the Northern West Bank following the opening of the Jalameh crossing....
First phase of the North Gaza Sewage Treatment Project is completed
Quartet Representative Tony Blair today welcomed the long-awaited completion of Phase One of the World-Bank funded North Gaza Emergency Sewage Treatment facility, which is successfully diverting sewage away from the dangerous Beit Lahiya site....
Tony Blair joins Salam Fayyad in Paris to review progress two years after $7.7bn aid conference
Quartet Representative Tony Blair joined Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at a meeting of the Paris Donors Group on Tuesday to review progress since the record-breaking pledging conference of December 2007. ...
Head of Mission Dr. Robert Danin welcomes Israel's agreement to allow limited exports and imports to Gaza
OQR Head of Mission Dr. Robert Danin today welcomed Israeli agreement to allow limited exports and imports to Gaza, through a project funded by the Dutch government. The agreement that the Office of the Quartet Representative has been working to broker is expected to facilitate the export of 30 million carnations and 300 tonnes of strawberries from Gaza by the end of the season....
Office of the Quartet Representative secures extension of Tarkumiya crossing opening hours
Quartet Representative Tony Blair, working with our Quartet partners, has secured an extension of the Tarkumiya commercial goods crossing opening hours. The news comes after local Palestinian business people identified that extended opening hours would improve access for goods, giving greater flexibility and reduce congestion during a consultation with OQR....
Tony Blair urges support for Prime Minister Fayyad's two-year state building plan at donors meeting
Quartet Representative Tony Blair and US Special Envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell met with the Paris Donors Group in Brussels today as part of the latest push for Middle East peace....
Tony Blair talks to David Frost about the Middle East in a wide-ranging interview for Al Jazeera
Quartet Representative Tony Blair talks to Sir David Frost about the Middle East, the work of his Faith Foundation, terrorism, Iraq and the EU presidency. ...
Secretary Clinton and Tony Blair hold Middle East talks at "difficult moment"
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Quartet Representative Tony Blair met today in Washington DC to discuss the latest developments in the Middle East peace process at what he described as "a difficult moment" for the region....
Tony Blair calls for credible political negotiation combined with real change on the ground
Quartet Representative Tony Blair today said that the key for progress in the Middle East is to combine a credible political negotiation with real change on the ground, in institution-building, security performance and economic development....
Tony Blair announces major jobs and investment boost for Palestinian territories
Quartet Representative Tony Blair today took part in the launch of two major projects which will provide a vital boost in both jobs and investment to the Palestinian economy - and which have been at the heart of his agenda to change the "facts on the ground."...
