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Blair sees Palestinians moving to implement "road map"

RAMALLAH, West Bank-International Middle East envoy Tony Blair said on Thursday Palestinian security forces had significantly improved and were starting to carry out their part in a long-stalled "road map" peace plan.The former British prime minister urged Israel to respond by easing travel and trade restrictions for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.The U.S. government will assess and judge whether Israel and the Palestinians are meeting their obligations under the 2003 road map as part of a push for a Palestinian statehood agreement before U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office next January.Statehood could hinge on those assessments because Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed not to implement any future peace agreements until Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets his road map obligation to crack down on militants."I think it is important to recognize that what has happened here in Nablus over these past few months is, of course, precisely what phase one of the 'road map' asks for," Blair said during a visit to the West Bank city.Earlier to the south in Ramallah, he said: "The Palestinian side have improved significantly their security capability."Israel has yet to fulfill its own road map commitments to halt Jewish settlement activity and to uproot outposts built without government permission in the occupied West Bank.Israeli officials said the Palestinians had a long way to go to meet their security obligations, citing a suicide bombing this week in southern Israel.
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