EU foreign ministers meet, minute's silence for Anna Lindh

Описание: (29 Sep 2003)
1. Press outside commission building where EU foreign ministers are meeting
2. Various officials arriving
3. Various of meeting room and EU foreign ministers and officials greeting each other
4. Belgian delegation at table
5. EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, at desk
6. Various of officials arriving for meeting
7. European Commission delegation
8. French delegation
9. Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini - whose country holds the EU presidency - sitting next to Solana
10. Swedish delegation
11. Pan of meeting
12. Frattini opening meeting and the minute of silence for slain Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh
13. Various pans of room as officials hold a minute of silence for Lindh
14. Swedish delegation during silence
15. Pan from Swedish delegation to red rose on table in honour of Lindh

STORYLINE:

European Union (EU) foreign ministers held a minute of silence to honour slain Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh Monday at the start of their first meeting since her death.

Sweden's acting foreign minister, Jan O. Karlsson, placed a single red rose on Sweden's desk.

As a lasting tribute, ministers were likely to endorse a proposal by Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, to name a meeting room after Lindh.

The popular Lindh was stabbed on September 10 at a department store in Stockholm and died from her injuries a day later.

E-U foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, are due to discuss the growing problems in their relations with Iran, Iraqi reconstruction, the Balkans, the fight against terrorism and the fallout of the failed world trade talks in Cancun, Mexico.

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