Saturday, March 7, 2009

British MP admits to secret talks with leaders of the militias.

At least three members of the British Parliament have held informal talks with the leaders of radical Middle Eastern organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, which Britain and the U.S. recognized terrorist. On CNN reported that a former Conservative Party chairman Michael Ankram (Michael Ancram).
According to Ankrama, secret meetings were held quite regularly in the past two years. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, aware of the ongoing negotiations, not to take any action to stop the informal contacts. At the same time, during a visit to the Gaza Strip on Sunday, March 1, Blair himself refused to meet with leaders of Hamas.
The last talks between British MPs and leaders of radical organizations were held in January this year in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Then Ankram and another deputy vstretlis with the head of the international relations Hezbollah Nawaf al-Moussavi and Hamas in Lebanon, Osama Hamdan.
In addition, Michael Ankram admitted that in June 2008, secretly visited the Syrian capital Damascus, where he held consultations with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. Past British MP described the meeting as "constructive." Negotiations, he said, showed that "there is a basis for further dialogue."
In an interview with CNN Ankram said that acting on their own initiative and on his own behalf. The purpose of informal contacts were "touching the ground and lay the groundwork for future negotiations, preferably at government level, which are believed Ankram, it is still inevitable.
The UK government has stopped official relationship with the movement of Hezbollah in 2005. However, once the country had formed a government of national unity, which included representatives of Hezbollah, the official London stated that refuses contacts with the military wing of the organization, but is willing to negotiate with political leaders of the movement.

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