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Blair: The empire is dead
On tour . . . Tony Blair's wife Cherie comforts a baby in a village near Dhaka in Bangladesh.Photo: AFP
By Kate Kelland, Bangalore
Prime Minister Tony Blair believes it is time for Britain to forget the nostalgic days of empire and play a pivotal new role on the world stage.
"We do not have an empire, we are not a superpower, but we do have a role and in playing it properly we benefit Britain and the wider world," he said yesterday from India, during his week-long tour of south Asia.
"That role is to be a pivotal player."
Mr Blair said Britain's foreign policy could no longer be divorced from domestic policy.
"It is to use the strengths of our history, our geography, our language, the unique set of links with the US, Europe, the Commonwealth, our position within the UN and NATO to be a force for good for our own nation and for the wider world," he said.
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Mr Blair is due to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today before travelling to Pakistan.
He said he wanted to try to exert a calming influence on the two nations, which have come to the brink of war in a longstanding dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell opened the way to deeper American involvement in the Indian subcontinent yesterday, indicating he would appoint an envoy to resolve the conflict. Mr Powell said America would do what it could after the build-up of troops on the border.
He said "we will encourage them to talk to one another" about Kashmir, and the idea of sending an envoy would be closely examined.
The Sun-Herald
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