Brown says he and Obama pledge to focus on Mideast

By Associated Press
Monday, December 15, 2008 - Added 341d 7h ago

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LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today that he and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama vowed during telephone talks to make progress on Mideast peace a key international goal next year.

"Let us seize the opportunity we have before us to make 2009 the Middle East year of peace, so we can look back and say 2009 was the turning point," Brown told a London conference on investment in the Palestinian economy.

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