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Submitted by that Blair was asked last October to address the cciuonl on his progress, but has not yet done so, nor has he set foot in Gaza. "We asked the cciuonl to invite Tony Blair to report to the cciuonl, like all the other envoys of the secretary-general report (Germany), Mar 29, 2012 at 14:08

Blair was asked last October to address the cciuonl on his progress, but has not yet done so, nor has he set foot in Gaza. "We asked the cciuonl to invite Tony Blair to report to the cciuonl, like all the other envoys of the secretary-general report to the security cciuonl," said Kumalo. "It became a question of when Blair would come to New York. The last we heard is that he would come [this year] . you have to understand there was controversy over this. "We wanted to know what Blair was doing in Gaza.

we need to know what the quartet envoy is doing. He has never been to Gaza. It is now three months since Blair was asked]." Last week Gordon Brown let slip that his long-term rival was still on holiday prompting Blair to embark on a flurry of broadcast interviews. Although Blair's spokesman confirmed that the former prime minister had not been to Gaza, he has met Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister, since the start of the current conflict. While performing his duties in the Middle East, Blair holds court at the American Colony hotel in east Jerusalem. He hires an entire floor of the hotel at a cost to the public purse of about 3700,000 a year.

Despite the fighting in Gaza, Blair is expected to be awarded the presidential medal of freedom by George W Bush at the White House on Tuesday. According to details of his schedule obtained by The Sunday Times, Blair's upcoming commitments include the climate conference in Abu Dhabi on January 21, a university talk near Boston on February 2 and a trip to a California theatre where tickets cost up to $380 each. Blair ranks as the most expensive speaker in the world. His agents at the Washington Speakers Bureau typically charge $250,000 (a3164,000) for a 90-minute speech. He is also paid about a32m a year by JP Morgan Chase and a further a3500,000 a year by Zurich Financial Services. The deal for his memoirs is worth a reported a34.6m. On Christmas Eve Tony and Cherie Blair invited 100 neighbours for drinks at their grade I-listed home, which they bought in May for a35.75m. South Pavilion in Wotton Underwood, Buckingham-shire, is the former home of Sir John Gielgud, the actor. RICH PICKINGS- Bill and Hillary Clinton earned $109m in the eight years after they left the White House. Bill Clinton earned $475,000 in a single day from two speeches.

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