Jul

22

Obama plans Blair talks in London

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Barack Obama has added a meeting with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to his programme in London on Saturday.

A senior advisor said that Obama will meet Blair in the ex-premier’s capacity as International Middle East peace envoy, but is also keen to tap his ideas on climate and energy issues.

The talks will take place ahead of Obama’s meeting with current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron, which will end his week-long international campaign swing.

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Jul

22

British PM warns Iran in landmark Israel speech

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Gordon Brown British Prime Minister warned Iran that it must freeze sensitive nuclear work or face more sanctions, in the first address by a British premier to the Israeli parliament.

He also railed against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ”abhorrent” threats against Israel and declared that Britain stands alongside the Jewish state.

Brown said peace was within their grasp, but only if Israel withdraws from settlements in the occupied West Bank and the Palestinians stamp out ”terrorists”.

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Jul

14

Brown urges more pressure on Zimbabwe

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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that the world must continuously put pressure on Zimbabwe regime so that the democracy can become a reality as early as possible. Brown said he was “determined” that the pressure would increase against Robert Mugabe’s regime and Britain would deposit the names of 36 people to include in a list of Zimbabwe officials targeted by EU sanctions.

The European Union has put EU travel and financial sanctions on 131 individuals linked to Mugabe’s regime under EU measures made in 2002.

Brown said, “We should not reduce the pressure on this regime. I believe we need to develop democracy fast.” He said it was “not necessary” that conversations “lead to a legitimate result and there is a chance to return to UN.”

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Jun

19

Brown says 2,000 terrorists presently living in UK

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Gordon Brown Prime Minister of UK said, “One of the greatest challenges in the modern world”. He said 2,000 terror suspects in the UK, 200 networks with 30 current plots.

Brown said Britain must be ready to use 21st century solutions to deal with 21st century threats of global terrorism and organised crime.

He defended policies like 42-day pre-charge detention for terror suspects and a national identity database, arguing that those threatening ordinary people`s security were ready to use the most up-to-date technology and the authorities could not afford to adopt a “head-in-the-sand” approach in response.

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Jun

17

More UK troops for Afghanistan: Brown

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Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Britain is to send more troops to Afghanistan increasing the strength to the highest level. The new deployment, welcomed by Bush, is likely to take British troop levels to approximately 8,000 in Afghanistan, where they have been in rift with Taliban militia.

He said, “It is in the British national interest to face the Taliban in Afghanistan, or Afghanistan would come to us.”

Britain has around 7,800 soldiers in Afghanistan; most of them are in the restive southern Helmand province fighting the Taliban. “Eighteen months ago, the Taliban said that they and their paid foreign fighters would spell our forces out of southern Helmand (province),” Brown said. Continue reading…



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Jun

17

President Bush praise Brown

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George Bush appreciated PM Gordon Brown as he said that Britain would increase sanction against Iranian banks and send 230 extra troops to southern Afghanistan and keep British troops in southern Iraq till the Iraqi security forces rectified a withdrawal.

Bush said that Brown knew that the spread of freedom was transformative, and it was wrong to think that “only white guy Methodists” wanted self-government. Continue reading…



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Jun

16

Iran and Iraq on the agenda for Bush-Brown talks

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U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will show a united front against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and try to dispel media suggestions of a tiff over troop levels in Iraq.

Bush and Brown are expected to step a more cautious line over the Iraq war, unpopular in both their countries and a source of intense anti-Bush sentiment in Britain.

Thousands of protesters exhibited in central London against Bush and the five-year-old war. Several demonstrators were injured in fights with police. Authorities said that they arrested 25 people.

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