Blair stresses need to return to Israel-Palestine question – UK FCO press release/Non-UN document

BLAIR: INTERVIEW ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN (08/08/06)

The Prime Minster has spoken to BBC Radio 4 on the current situation in the Middle East.

In the interview he said: 'We can achieve what the Lebanese Government want to see as well as what the Israeli Government wants to see, which is the Government of Lebanon back in full charge of its own territory, without us leaving a vacuum in which the Hezbollah militia can move in'.

He stressed the need to return to the Israel Palestine question: 'which I think is completely fundamental to the whole of the issues in the Middle East'.

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