Monday, July 31, 2006

Irish Examiner>Blair and Turkish leader consider sending force to Lebanon

"Blair and Turkish leader consider sending force to Lebanon :: latest

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and British prime minister Tony Blair today discussed the possibility of deploying a peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Turkey, Nato’s only Muslim member, had expressed a readiness to contribute troops to a peacekeeping force if there were first a ceasefire and if the force were backed by a UN resolution."

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