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Of thousands of diplomatic cables an attack on the international community. what s your view of that? well, i agree with her totally. i mean, the fact is for people to be able to conduct international affairs, they ve got to be able to do so with some level of confidentiality. that s not secrecy or hiding things from the public. any person of common sense can sit down and work out that if you re dealing with highly sensitive issues between countries, you have to do so confidentially. so you know, that s my view on that. larry: thanks so much. always good seeing you, mr. prime minister. great pleasure having you with us. thanks very much, larry. all the best to you. larry: former prime minister tony blair, special envoy for the quartet on the middle east. when we come back, we ll meet solomon faihad and ehud barak, the former prime minister of israel. ....
Want to get to. larry: while we have you, a couple of other quick things. secretary of state clinton called the wikileaks publication of thousands of diplomatic cables an attack on the international community. what s your view of that? well, i agree with her totally. i mean, the fact is for people to be able to conduct international affairs, they ve got to be able to do so with some level of confidentiality. that s not secrecy or hiding things from the public. any person of common sense can sit down and work out that if you re dealing with highly sensitive issues between countries, you have to do so confidentially. so you know, that s my view on that. larry: thanks so much. always good seeing you, mr. prime minister. great pleasure having you with us. thanks very much, larry. all the best to you. larry: former prime minister tony blair, special envoy for the quartet on the middle east. when we come back, we ll meet salam fayyad and ehud barak, the former prime minister of isr ....
Tony blair is the special envoy for the quartet on the middle east. he s in the united states to address the 2010 forum hosted by the brookings institution. mr. prime minister, it goes on and on. now the obama administration has made a decision to step back from trying to persuade israel to freeze settlement expansion. you have called that sensible. why? because i think we need to find a way forward now that gives both parties confidence that we can have a negotiation that actually succeeds. and in the meantime, we ve got to push ahead and create the change on the ground that s going to make a real difference in the lives of palestinians and also provide the israelis with the assurances they require on security. so you know, we ve hit an impasse. it s a problem, but we ve got to find a way through. larry: but that decision, ....
Things from the public. any person of common sense can sit down and work out that if you re dealing with highly sensitive issues between countries, you have to do so confidentially. so you know, that s my view on that. larry: thanks so much. always good seeing you, mr. prime minister. great pleasure having you with us. thanks very much, larry. all the best to you. larry: former prime minister tony blair, special envoy for the quartet on the middle east. when we come back, we ll meet solomon faihad and ehud barak, the former prime minister of israel. ....