Monday, September 19, 2011

Tony Blair advising David Cameron on Middle East

Mr Blair has a country home in Buckinghamshire not far from Chequers.

William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has said he speaks to Mr Blair regularly.

It is understood that Mr Hague and Mr Blair spoke this week about the UN process.

They are understood to have met in New York yesterday at the request of Mr Cameron.

The United States is threatening to veto Palestine's application for statehood and Germany and the Netherlands oppose it.

Spain, France and Sweden, however, are in favour.

Mr Blair said yesterday: ?The Palestinians are perfectly entitled to take their case to the UN, perfectly entitled to have the UN hear it.

"The real point, however, is whatever happens at the UN, we are in a better place to get a Palestinian state if we also have a revived negotiation.?

One of the main stumbling blocks to peace is that Israeli settlers continue to build on land which the Palestinians claim as their own.

Mr Cameron's choice of guests at Chequers has been scrutinised before.

Earlier this year, it was disclosed that Andy Coulson visited the Buckinghamshire house in March.

The former editor of the News of the World had resigned from his post as the Prime Minister's head of communications two months earlier.

Chequers has been the official country residence of the British prime minister since it was handed to the nation in 1921 under the terms of the Chequers Estate Act 1917.



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