Senior Palestinian negotiators avoided shaking Tony Blair's hand and delivered a series of calculated snubs during a high-level meeting with international mediators this week, officials in the West Bank said on Friday.
The alleged display of disdain is the latest demonstration of Palestinian fury towards Mr Blair amid accusations that he has behaved like "an Israeli diplomat" in his role as the international envoy to the Middle East peace process.
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"There was nothing to talk to Mr Blair about," a senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks said. "We do not consider him the leader of the Quartet. He said almost nothing during the whole meeting."
In a further pointed snub, the Palestinian Authority consciously broke with protocol and normal procedure by stripping Mr Blair's name from three letters delivered to the Quartet, addressing them instead to the Quartet's individual members, the official said. Full story...
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The alleged display of disdain is the latest demonstration of Palestinian fury towards Mr Blair amid accusations that he has behaved like "an Israeli diplomat" in his role as the international envoy to the Middle East peace process.
(...)
"There was nothing to talk to Mr Blair about," a senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks said. "We do not consider him the leader of the Quartet. He said almost nothing during the whole meeting."
In a further pointed snub, the Palestinian Authority consciously broke with protocol and normal procedure by stripping Mr Blair's name from three letters delivered to the Quartet, addressing them instead to the Quartet's individual members, the official said. Full story...
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