Blair and Bush: the final reckoning
Independent [UK]
06/06/07
Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today. Three weeks before he stands down as Prime Minister, Mr Blair will join forces with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in an attempt to secure a breakthrough in the battle against climate change. They will press a reluctant US president to agree that the world should cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050. Such an outcome from the last international gathering that Mr Blair will attend with President Bush would at last allow him to answer critics who claim he has got little in return for his ’shoulder to shoulder’ support for the US President, notably on Iraq and other issues related to the ‘war on terror’...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2617436.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8
06/06/07
Tony Blair will make a final appeal to George Bush to repay his loyal support over Iraq by signing up to a firm global target to cut carbon emissions at the G8 summit in Germany starting today. Three weeks before he stands down as Prime Minister, Mr Blair will join forces with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in an attempt to secure a breakthrough in the battle against climate change. They will press a reluctant US president to agree that the world should cut carbon emissions by 50 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050. Such an outcome from the last international gathering that Mr Blair will attend with President Bush would at last allow him to answer critics who claim he has got little in return for his ’shoulder to shoulder’ support for the US President, notably on Iraq and other issues related to the ‘war on terror’...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article2617436.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=G8
rudkla - 6. Jun, 11:41
