British Prime Minister Tony Blair Sunday praised a Middle East peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah and called for it to be enshrined in a United Nations resolution. Blair also welcomed Bush's call for Israel to withdraw its troops from Palestinian areas "without delay," stressing the need for an external force to intervene in the conflict and help the two sides back to negotiations. Blair said the top priority was to get a cease-fire and added: "In parallel with a cease-fire, the principles he (Abdullah) set out should be incorporated in a further U.N. Security Council resolution as the way forward politically. "You need a political vision of the final settlement and small practical steps going together to get on the road to peace," he said in a speech to the George Bush Senior Presidential Library in College Station, Texas.
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