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Sources confirmed Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU

In other political news, sources confirmed former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU.

Michael Wolff claimed the former Labour leader was «sucking up» to Jared Kushner and angling for a job as Middle East envoy.

Blair issued a strong signal on this front when he stood down as an MP on the day he resigned as prime minister in 2007 to concentrate on his new role as Middle East envoy for the «quartet».

Downing Street has not confirmed that Mr Williams will be appointed as Mr Brown's new Middle East envoy, but a spokesman told the Times that the prime minister was intending to make such an appointment «in due course».

But media reports suggested he had told allies not to speak out against the Middle East envoy and instead insisted on a place at the leadership announcement event so he could be seen to pass on the baton to the new leader in a dignified way.

The comments reflect Blair's priorities when he became Middle East envoy - that the territories had to function properly by being opened up to commerce and the like.

Former prime minister Tony Blair spent yesterday evening accepting a $ 1 million prize for his work as a Middle East envoy.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for what has typically been a routine meeting with envoys from the Quartet on Middle East peace, comprised of the US, EU, UN and Russia.

In 2008 - 2009, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS), General James L. Jones.

Mr Blair, who is an envoy to the Middle East for the UN, the EU, Russia and the US, admitted that fear of trouble was putting people off.

Tillerson also wants IRF to absorb the offices for religious minorities in the Middle East and Asia, the representative to Muslim communities, and the special envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Alwi Shihab, former lecturer at Harvard, former foreign minister, and now the Indonesian president's special envoy to the Middle East and to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Since standing down after ten years in Downing Street two years ago Mr Blair has been the envoy of the Quartet - the EU, US, Russia and UN - working to promote peace in the Middle East.

Lord Levy, a close friend of Tony Blair (who was the Prime Minister's personal envoy to the Middle East, as well as tennis partner), had raised funds for Labour and was identified in the press as a key figure in arranging the loans and on 17 March 2006 it was announced that the Public Administration Select Committee of the House of Commons had invited him to give evidence on political financing.

Lord Levy, his long - standing friend and, laughably given his Zionist views, special envoy to the Middle East, was arrested but not charged for his role.

Lord Levy, the prime minister's chief fundraiser and personal envoy to the Middle East, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.

The questioning took place four days before Lord Levy, Mr Blair's personal envoy to the Middle East and his chief fundraiser, was arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice on Tuesday.

Scotland Yard has so far interviewed 90 people of all political persuasions and arrested three, including Mr Blair's personal envoy to the Middle East, Lord Levy.

The former prime minister has not been inactive since he left Downing Street in 2007, working most prominently as a Middle East peace envoy.

Lord Levy, Blair's chief fundraiser and his special envoy to the Middle East, also came in for questioning.

So soon after the latest cash for access scandal involving Jack Straw and Malcolm Rifkind, is it really sensible to take cash from the former politician who «enjoys the best contacts that money can buy — as do those willing to pay him for access to those contacts» and is the subject of a new book designed to expose «the private dealings of this very public figure ``, who's made his fortune selling his soul to the oil - rich potentates he mixes with as special envoy in the Middle East and brutal dictators like those of Burma and Kazakhstan?

Political commentators have suggested that the expected job announcement indicates the prime minister is keen to develop his own Middle East policy, despite his predecessor being appointed as an international envoy to the region.

The lights of Jerusalem twinkle around him on a warm evening as he worries, open - collared, about his current work as Middle East peace envoy.

President Obama appointed you as the first science envoy to the Middle East in 2009.

The President promised new «science envoys,» centers of excellence, and a «technological development» fund for the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops.

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Keck unleashes her physical process in Limp, her latest foray at envoy enterprises on the Lower East Side.

/ 334 Broome / thru 3/2 Opening 2/7 Sadie Benning; Thomas Kovachevich; Dona Nelson / Callicoon / 124 Forsyth / thru 2/17 Siri Berg / Hionas / 124 Forsyth (new, second location) / thru 2/17 Omar Khayyam / Ping / 131 Eldridge / thru 2/16 Andy Graydon / LMAK / 139 Eldridge / thru 2/10 Benjamin Senior / Fuentes / 55 Delancey / thru 3/1 Opening 2/6 Cal Crawford / Brennan & Griffin / 55 Delancey / thru 2/24 Maya Bloch / Thierry Goldberg / 103 Norfolk / thru 2/17 Becky Beasley; Alicja Kwade / Cooley / 107 Norfolk / thru 3/17 Opening 2/10 Erik Wysocan / Gitlen / 122 Norfolk (new location) / thru 2/17 Nevermore / On Stellar Rays / 133 Orchard / thru 3/10 Thomas Bayrle / The Artist's Institute / 163 Eldridge / thru 7/14 Opening 2/10 Tectonic Drift: Amanda Church; Brian Cypher; Stacy Fisher; Gary Petersen; Russell Tyler / Morris / 163 Chrystie / thru 3/16 Opening 2/13 (6 - 9 PM) Casey Ruble / Foley / 97 Allen / thru 2/24 Nathaniel Robinson / Feature / 131 Allen / thru 2/9 Jane Mount / Bekman / 6 Spring / thru 2/17 Opening 2/8 Color or Colour: Ben Eine; Lee Baker; Katrin Fridriks; Michael Bevilacqua / Charles Bank / 196 Bowery / thru 2/17 (extended) The White Album organized by David Fierman & Amie Scally / James / 143B Orchard / thru 2/22 All The Best People / 1:1 / 121 Essex — floor 2 / thru 2/14 SexEd: Chapter 1 curated by Liz Slagus & Norene Leddy / Cuchifritos / 120 Essex (SE corner of market) / thru 3/10 Opening 2/9 (4 - 6:30 PM) Camila Sposati / Eleven Rivington / 11 Rivington / thru 2/10 Environmental Services: Doug Weathersby; Carolyn Salas / Dodge / 15 Rivington / thru 2/17 Narcissister / Envoy / 87 Rivington (second location) / thru 2/10 Takuro Kuwata / Salon 94 / 1 Freeman Alley / thru 2/23 David Kramer; Michael Harrington / Mulherin + Pollard / Freeman Alley — 187 Chrystie / thru 2/24 Metal Coyote curated by Aldo Sanchez / Y / 165 Orchard / thru 2/17 Hooper Turner / Frosch & Portmann / 53 Stanton / thru 3/10 Drew Conrad / Fitzroy / 195 Christie / thru 2/22 (extended) Ishmael Randall Weeks / Eleven Rivington / 195 Chrystie (second location) / thru 2/10 Robin Rhode / Lehmann Maupin / 201 Chrystie / thru 3/9 Nari Ward thru 4/21; NYC 1993 thru 5/26 Opening 2/13 / New Museum / 231 - 235 Bowery Takuro Kuwata / Salon 94 / 243 Bowery / thru 2/25 Fabio Viale; Quadreria Italian Paintings / Sperone Westwater / 257 Bowery / thru 2/23 Lauren Dicioccio; Word: R. Wynne; S. Hyland; K. Fandell; C. Conant; T. Allen / Tomlinson Kong / 270 Bowery / thru 3/29 Vandana Jain / Station Independent / 164 Suffolk / thru 2/10 Snout to Tail: Anna - Sophie Berger; Zak Kitnick; Sean Paul / JTT / 170 A Suffolk / thru 2/17 Dream Out: Joke Schole; Steel Stillman; Sally Webster / Show Room / 170 Suffolk / thru 2/24 Paul Resika / Harvey / 208 Forsyth / thru 2/10 Katrina del Mar / Participant / 253 E Houston / thru 2/17 Kurt Johannessen Opening 2/8; Michael Alan / NOoSPHERE / 251 E Houston / thru 2/24 Melissa Dubbin; Aaron Davidson / Audio Visual Arts / 34 E 1 / thru 2/17 Decopolis / The Proposition / 2 Extra Place (East 1st St. off Bowery) / thru 2/24 Opening 2/6 Joel Holmberg / American Contemporary / 4 E 2 / thru 2/22 Jaimie Warren thru 2/6 Closing talk 8 PM; Herbie Flether thru 2/28 Opening 2/9 / The Hole / 312 Bowery

Iglesias, F.Meisenberg, B.Ruais, K.Thorne, J.VanDyke / Abrons / 466 Grand / thru 12/20 Kaari Upson / Ramiken Crucible / 389 Grand / thru 12/14 Matt Connolly / Essex Flowers / 365 Grand / thru 1/4 Opening 11/21 Keumnin Lee / Shin / 322 Grand / thru 11/30 Ulf Puder; Bettina Blohm / Straus / 299 Grand / thru 12/12 Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho / 47 Canal / 291 Grand — floor 2 (new location) / thru 12/21 Bright Matter: LAb [au]; Numen / For Use; Joanie Lemercier; Nonotak; François Wunschel / Guepin / 83 Orchard / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Kiki Kogelnik / Subal / 131 Bowery / thru 12/19 Brad Troemel / Tomorrow / 106 Eldridge / thru 11/30 (extended) The Contract / Essex Street / 114 Eldridge / thru 1/11 Opening 11/21 Reception 11/22 Foster Mickley / Munch / 245 Broome / thru 12/21 Opening 11/21 Robin Kang; Duhirwe Rushemeza / Tabacaru / 250 Broome / thru 12/9 Michelle Lopez / Preston / 301 Broome / thru 12/21 Alexander Tovborg / Beauchene / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Mary Ann Aitken; John Maggie; Jonathan Rajewski / Hanley / 327 Broome / thru 12/21 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Whitebox / 329 Broome / 11/1 thru 11/30 Yui Kugimiya / Marlborough / 331 Broome (third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Opening 11/20 Lily Ludlow / Canada / 333 Broome / thru 12/14 Ulrike Theusner; Paul Brainard / Lodge / 131 Chrystie / thru 12/14 Cristina Vergano / Woodward / 133 Eldridge / thru 12/21 Nayda Collazo - Llorens / LMAK / 139 Eldridge / thru 11/30 James Hoff / Callicoon / 49 Delancey / thru 12/21 Noam Rappaport / Fuentes / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 XYZ collective / Brennan & Griffin / 55 Delancey / thru 12/21 Jana Winderen & Marc Fornes / Storefront for Art & Architecture / 97 Kenmare @ Centre / thru 11/21 Maya Bloch / Thierry Goldberg / 103 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Josh Faught / Cooley / 107 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Joseph Montgomery / Gitlen / 122 Norfolk / thru 12/21 My Big Fat Painting curated by Rick Briggs; Fred Gutzeit / Morris / 163 Chrystie / thru 11/23 (extended) Closing Reception 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Mark Joshua Epstein / Morris project space / 163 Chrystie / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 (7 - 9 PM) Addie Wagenknecht / Bitforms / 131 Allen (new location) / thru 12/7 David Mramor / James / 143b Orchard / thru 12/7 Angelo Volpe / Krause / 149 Orchard / thru 12/8 Beatrice Scaccia / Cuchifritos / 120 Essex (SE corner of market) / thru 11/30 Tommy Hartung / On Stellar Rays / 1 Rivington / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 11 Rivington / thru 11/23 Bill Traylor / Cuningham / 15 Rivington (new location) / thru 12/6 Micki Pellerano / Envoy / 87 Rivington / thru 11/23 Do the Write Thing: Read Between the Lines / Berst / 95 Rivington / thru 12/20 Guglielmo Achille Cavellini / Lynch Tham / 175 Rivington / thru 12/21 Jessica Rankin / Salon 94 / 1 Freeman Alley / thru 12/21 Red, Yellow and Orange: Ford Crull; Debra Drexler; Peggy Cyphers / Van Der Plas / 156 Orchard / / thru 12/31 AS IF: Abigail Donovan; Troy Richards; Robert Straight; Peter Williams / Novella / 164 Orchard / thru 12/6 Raquel Rabinovich / Y / 165 Orchard / thru 12/23 Opening 11/21 Tai Ogawa / Matsumiya / 153 1/2 Stanton / thru 12/31 Magnolia Laurie / Frosch & Portmann / 53 Stanton / thru 11/23 Forces at Play: S.Crider; B.Gardner; M.Keller; J.Mellon; L.Rablin / Molly Krom / 53c Stanton / thru 11/30 Valeska Soares / Eleven Rivington / 195 Chrystie (second location) / thru 11/23 Sara Goldschmied; Eleonora Chiari / Lorello / 195 Chrystie — floor 6 / 11/19 thru 1/25 Reception 12/11 Kader Attia / Lehmann Maupin / 201 Chrystie / thru 12/13 George Horner thru 12/6, Henry Mandell thru 1/10 / Charles / 196 Bowery Lili Reynaud - Dewar thru 1/25; Chris Ofili thru 2/10; etc. / New Museum / 231 - 235 Bowery Takeshi Murata / Salon 94 / 243 Bowery / thru 12/21 Heinz Mack / Sperone Westwater / 257 Bowery / thru 12/13 Notes on Undoing / Garis & Hahn / 263 Bowery / thru 12/20 Opening 11/20 Charles Dunn / Rucker / 141 Attorney / thru 11/26 Serge Alain Nitegeka / Boesky East / 20 Clinton (new, third NYC location) / thru 12/21 Matthew Fischer / Junior Projects / 139 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Pierre St - Jacques / Station Independent / 164 Suffolk / thru 12/14 Aki Sasamoto / JTT / 170a Suffolk / thru 12/14 (Performances 12/12 @ 6 PM) Sara Greenberger Rafferty / Uffner / 170 Suffolk / thru 12/21 Matt Hoyt / Bureau / 178 Norfolk / thru 12/21 Stuart Shils / Harvey / 208 Forsyth / thru 12/21 Opening 11/19 Arianna Carossa / Rooster / 190 Orchard / thru 1/4 Opening 11/25 Greer Lankon / Participant / 253 E Houston / thru 12/21 Henry Flynt / Audio Visual Arts / 34 E 1st / thru 11/23 (extended) Joel Holmberg / American Contemporary / 4 E 2nd / thru 12/19 Early Man / The Hole / 312 Bowery / thru 12/28

Despite its commercial name, it has attracted some of the trendier Lower East Side galleries including Allegra LaViola, Envoy Enterprises and MULHERIN along with other New York names such as DC Moore and P.P.O.W.

Compared to this, even Tony Blair's appointment as UN Middle East Peace Envoy seems sensible!

And this photo, of the President with George Mitchell, Special Middle East Peace Envoy, available here on the State Department Web site: