Mideast Quartet mulls Blair as senior envoy

06/26/2007

JERUSALEM (AP) - International Mideast negotiators on Tuesday searched for ways to revive peace talks after Hamas’ takeover of the Gaza Strip, and U.S. officials said they were expected to name outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair as a senior envoy.

The gathering of the so-called Quartet of Mideast peace makers came a day after the Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders held a summit in a unified stance against Hamas.

Representatives of the Quartet — the U.S., EU, U.N. and Russia — met for nearly three hours at the American Consulate in Jerusalem.

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