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At the time, Tony Blair had left Downing Street and was working as Middle East envoy on behalf of the UN, EU and Russia.

Mr Blair acts as a special envoy on behalf of the "Quartet", comprising the UN, the United States, Russia and the European Union.

Tony Blair, Middle East envoy on behalf of the US, Russia, the UN and the EU, continually referred to what he described as the Iranian threat during his evidence at the Chilcot inquiry last Friday.

"The most important message I've brought is that, on your road to national rejuvenation, China stands by your side," said Wang, who was acting as an envoy on behalf of Chinese President Xi Jinping.

On Monday, Tanzania's envoy, speaking on behalf of some 40 countries that met last week, said that while they did not reject a new round outright, the industrial countries must first open up their markets for textiles and agricultural goods, as the developing countries contend they were promised in the Uruguay Round.

Only one day earlier, a senior Chinese envoy had visited North Korea on behalf of Mr Xi.

The scene bore a strong resemblance to one on Wednesday in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where the American envoy, Dennis Ross, also spoke on behalf of the Israeli and Palestinian sides in announcing a resumption of the negotiations.

Before returning to Rio de Janeiro, he received the British diplomatic envoy Edward Thornton, who apologized on behalf of Queen Victoria and the British Government for the crisis between the empires.

Pyongyang's special envoy praised China's work on behalf of peace and stability and its "great efforts to return [Korean] peninsular issues to the channel of dialogue and negotiation," China Central Television reported.

There are reportedly no plans so far to send a similarly high-profile envoy to the North to act on behalf of Bae, who runs a travel agency called Nation Tours and had visited North Korea several times without incident.

"We remain convinced that, based on the progress made and on the new ideas which continue to be explored, there is a credible path through which a comprehensive solution can be reached," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union envoy Catherine Ashton, who coordinates the negotiations on behalf of the global powers, said in a joint statement.