International support for the US war on terrorism is snowballing said British Prime Minister Mr Tony Blair.
It follows a hectic day of diplomacy aimed at creating the broadest possible coalition against those behind the World Trade Centre attacks.
He is playing a key role in rallying support for US President George W Bush's declaration of war against terrorist forces who killed more than 5,000 people in New York.
Mr Blair diary has been cleared so he can devote himself to the diplomatic mission he says Britain has a moral duty to undertake.
Today he held a telephone conversation with Chinese president Jiang Zemin and hosted a meeting of African officials.
Tomorrow he will meet German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin before travelling on to Paris for talks with French president Jacques Chirac.
Mr Blair will then report the progress he has made to Mr Bush in Washington on Thursday.
"That coalition is strengthening," he said. "Right throughout the world people recognise we have to stand in solidarity with the United States not simply because it is the United States, but because the attack on it was an attack on the civilised world."
Mr Blair said he had personally seen evidence pointing to the alleged involvement of Osama bin Laden, the Saudi dissident hiding out in Afghanistan.
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