Thursday, February 19, 2015

Tony Blair to advise Serbian government, 16 years after bombing Belgrade...

Tony Blair is being paid to advise the Serbian government, it has emerged, despite being one of the leading proponents in NATO’s bombing campaigns against Belgrade during the Kosovo War.

Under a deal believed to be funded by the United Arab Emirates, Mr Blair will counsel Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, who was minister of information at the time of the 1999 bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia.

Mr Vucic was once such an outspoken critic of the British politician that he was listed as an editor of a book titled English Gay Fart Tony Blair.

However, now Mr Vucic and Mr Blair appear to be business partners, under a contract sealed by Blair’s private consultancy to set up a “delivery unit”, Serbian sources told The Guardian.

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The revelation is likely to enrage Serbs who resent Mr Blair’s role in the bombing campaign against the former Yugoslavia, but also opponents of his expanding business interests in the Middle East.

 The former British Prime Minister’s critics say that his financial ties to Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital, are undermining his posting as official envoy in the Middle East for the Quartet – the UN, US, Russia and EU. Full story...

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