(Daily Mail-UK) Prime Minister Blair inspected a Palestinian honor guard with Arafat's likely successor, Mahmoud Abbas, before stopping for a moment in front of the glass-walled mausoleum built for Arafat in Ramallah. Blair nodded and there was a moment's silence. The Palestinians would have liked Blair to lay a wreath at the grave, as Foreign Minister Jack Straw did last month, but Blair's delegation had ruled this out and agreed to the pause before the tomb instead.
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