GNS: Briefing by Garner, Cross, Barzani and Talabani

Описание: (27 Apr 2003)

1. Various views from helicopter in flight (as retired US Lieutenant General Jay Garner travels to meeting)
2. Garner walking away from helicopter
3. Jay Garner, Tim Cross, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani holding hands at photo op
4. Garner, Cross, Talabani and Barzani enter news conference and take seats
5. Cutaway of cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, U.S-appointed Civil Administrator in Post-War Iraq:
"I came here to meet with Mr Talabani and Mr Barzani who over the past 12 years have established a model in both leadership and freedom. This is a wonderful model and it is a wonderful area up here, you can see it in the faces and in the attitudes of the people. And what we wish is to take this type of experience and spread it through all of Iraq."
7. Cutaway to wide shot of four at table
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) British Major General Tim Cross, deputy to Jay Garner:
"Having seen southern Iraq and Baghdad, to come here today has been, for me, a very important experience. It shows to me it proves to me what the Iraqi people are capable of doing and there is no reason why what we see in this part of Iraq today should not be the same in all Iraq in the months and years to come and I congratulate these two great leaders for all that they have achieved here over these last 12 years."
9. Cutaway to wide shot of four at table
10. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish with English translation) Massoud Barzani, leader of Kurdish Democratic Party:
"I'd like also to thank the United States government and the UK government for helping the Iraqi people to achieve their liberation."
11. Cutaway to wide shot of four at table
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jalal Talabani, leader of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan:
"No, no this is not our dream. This is the accusation of our enemy to us. Our dream is to have to live within the framework of a democratic Iraq and base it on democracy, parliamentarism, human rights federation and equal citizenship rights for everyone."
13. Cutaway to wide shot of four at table
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, U.S-appointed Civil Administrator in Post-War Iraq:
"Our desire is that the new government of Iraq represents all Iraqi people, Kurdish people, Shiites, Shia, Turkman, Assyrian, ++indistinct - sounds like Chowdian++ all people. It will be a mosaic of the cultures, the religions, the ethnicity of Iraq."
15. Wide shot four finishing press conference

STORYLINE:

Retired US Lieutenant General Jay Garner, who is overseeing the postwar building of Iraq, arrived in the northern Kurdish region on Tuesday, and held talks with Kurdish leaders on post-war Iraq.

Garner's helicopter, which was guarded by an Army Special Forces gunner, landed in Sulaymaniyah.

It was Garner's first time in the region since he ran the Operation Provide Comfort mission to coordinate humanitarian aid after Saddam Hussein crushed a Kurdish rebellion following the Gulf War in 1991.

Garner travelled to the town of Dokan about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Sulaymaniyah, one of Kurdistan's picturesque regions, where he began formal talk with the leaders of the two main Kurdish groups.

Garner met with Jalal Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), which holds sway in the western part of Iraq's Kurdish region.

Disagreements between the two groups degenerated into civil war in 1996 but they later found common ground as partners with Washington and in October the full Kurdish parliament convened for the first time in eight years.




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