Blackpool, England, Oct 02: Negotiations on the establishment of a Palestinian state, based on the boundaries of 1967, must be relaunched by the end of the year, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said today.
And United Nations resolutions on the Middle East "should apply as much as to Iraq," Blair said in a keynote speech to his Labour Party's annual conference in Blackpool, northwest England.
"I agree UN resolutions should apply here as much as to Iraq. But they don't just apply to Israel, they apply to all parties, and there's only one answer.
"By the end of the year, we must have revived final-status negotiations, and they must have explicitly as their aims: an Israeli state free from terror, recognised by the Arab world, and a viable Palestinian state based on the boundaries of 1967."
Blair told the Labour Party conference: "what is happening in the Middle East now is ugly and wrong ... The Palestinians living in increasingly abject conditions, humiliated and hopeless; Israeli civilians brutally murdered."

The Prime Minister added: "for Britain to be help shape this new world, Britain needs to be part of it." Bureau Report