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Tony Blair (Anthony Charles Lynton Blair)

Date of Birth: 6 May 1953
Place of Birth: Edinburgh


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Diplomacy with attitude

Third Way in Cape TownPrime Minister Tony Blair stopped over in South Africa's parliament in January after a Christmas holiday in the Seychelles to make 'a Third Way' speech extolling the virtues of centrist politics and globalisation neither of them hugely popular in Cape Town just now...


Whitehall's Africa team

Both are said to be having a 'good war' in Yugoslavia and are likely to be survive Prime Minister Tony Blair's forthcoming reshuffle although any leadership hopes Cook may have harboured were dissipated after his annus horribilis: the arms to Sierra Leone row and his messy divorce last year...

Tony Blair whom FCO officials regard as a 'natural' diplomat has assembled an inner circle almost devoid of foreign policy experience save for the former career diplomat in Washington Jonathan Powell...


Spinning south

Premier Tony Blair was quoted as saying that one of his political aims was to get Labour ‘to love Peter Mandelson’...


Une autre entente

Details of plans have emerged since the Franco-British summit in Saint-Malo on 3-4 December attended by Cook and Védrine and Premiers Lionel Jospin and Tony Blair...


Congo contradictions

And perhaps also to explain that Prime Minister Tony Blair's inability to arrange a meeting with Ivorian President Henri Konan- Bédié on his planned visit to London (subsequently postponed) did not indicate a diminution of British interest in Francophone Africa...


Abubakar meets Abiola

When UK Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke with Abubakar on 24 June it was agreed that his Minister of State for Africa and Human Rights Tony Lloyd would meet the new government in Abuja on 26 June...


Barometric

But Mauritians see Kinnock wife of Labour ex- leader and EU Commissioner Neil Kinnock as torpedoing Port-Louis on behalf of current Labour leader and Premier Tony Blair...


Blair-ites in the desert

The kingdom's first socialist-led government draws on British Prime Minister Tony Blair's New Labour strategy (closely watched in Morocco) attempting to promote social reform alongside tough monetary and fiscal policies...


Best friends, friends and foes

Ever cautious on pledging money Premier Tony Blair's government wants to push for more debt reduction mainly in Commonwealth countries but also in 'close to Commonwealth' countries such as Rwanda and now it seems Congo-Kinshasa...


Enunciations from Edinburgh

' Tough very very toughAlthough Ikimi's interpretation of the Commonwealth decision was by far the most accurate on offer British Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted the Commonwealth had taken 'very very tough action' on the Abacha government a regime his Foreign Secretary Robin Cook had described as 'among the most brutal in the world'...


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