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Blair backs US-Pak accord

British Prime Minister Tony Blair met Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharief yesterday and backed a Washington accord designed to resolve the Kargil conflict, officials said.

Blair and Sharief, en route back to Pakistan after talks with US President Bill Clinton, met for half an hour to discuss the fighting in Kargil.

A spokesman for Blair said Britain welcomed the joint US-Pakistan statement issued on Sunday in which Clinton and Sharief agreed that concrete steps should be taken to restore the military Line of Control dividing the forces of the two countries.

''(Blair) said the statement represented real progress towards reducing tension with India. The prime minister and Sharief agreed on the importance of swiftly implementing the actions proposed in the statement,'' the spokesman said.

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