British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Friday that the Group of Eight powers has pledged to help the Palestininan Authority by providing a US$3 billion package in aid. Blair, speaking at the end of the G8 summit in Scotland, said the deal would be implemented "in years to come." He said the G8 action plan offered hope to the world. "There is no hope in terrorism or any future in it worth living, and it is hope that is the alternative to this hatred," he said, one day after London was attacked by multiple bomb blasts.
The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States endorsed measures they said would boost annual development aid to poor and developing countries by 50 billion dollars by 2010. He also said the Palestinian Authority aid package is aimed at boosting Middle East peace prospects, benefiting Israel and Palestine so that "two peoples and two religions can live side by side in peace." |