21 November 2006
Tony Blair says the death of Pierre Gemayel underlines the "absolute and urgent" need for a strategy that supports democracy in the Middle East.
The minister, 34, was shot in his car in a Beirut suburb and rushed to hospital, where he died.
The PM condemned the killing as being "without justification", saying that the international community needed to do all it could to protect democracy in Lebanon. He went on:
"This underlines once again the absolute and urgent need for a strategy for the whole of the Middle East that supports those who favour democracy and a proper way of resolving disputes everywhere."
Mr Blair’s comments came in a press conference following talks with the Greek PM.
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