Shimon Peres meets with Putin as well as Ivanov

Описание: (21 May 2001)

1. Shimon Peres and Russian Foreign minister Igor Ivanov enter the hall
2. Media
3. Pull out from talks around table
4. Peres
5. Pan of the talks
6. Russian Foreign ministry emblem
7. Peres and Ivanov come out for press conference
8. Media
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shimon Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister (with Russian translation): "The Mitchell document creates an opportunity for peace negotiations. The document proposes the sequence of actions which is accepted by us. And with crystallisation of the world public opinion and others concerned we could back to peace negotiations"
10. Media
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister: "Russia is ready to support any initiative accepted by the Israeli and Palestinian sides that would lead to cessation of violence and restarting the peace process"
12. Pan press conference
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister: "We asked the Palestinian authorities, first of all, to discipline their forces because some of the Palestinian forces participate in the shooting and the killing."
14. Kremlin exteriors
15. Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Peres
16. Media cutaway
17. Wide shot talks at table
18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: "We are especially happy to see you here, the man who is known in our country and in the whole world as a man who wants to bring peace to the Middle East and has done a lot personally to bring it about."
19. Wide shot talks
20. Peres
21. Wide shot talks
22. Media
23. Kremlin exteriors

STORYLINE:

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who is visiting Moscow, has defended the latest Israeli raids against Palestinian targets, saying they were aimed against a mortar factory in particular and terrorism in general.

In a bid to lobby Russian officials for support, Peres met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and the patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, Alexy II.

At the start of Peres' talks with the Russian president in the Kremlin, Putin expressed concern about Russian visitors to Israel caught in violence, and urged peace negotiations.

Speaking at the press conference after a meeting with his Russian counterpart Igor Ivanov, Peres praised the proposals put forward by an international commission headed by former U-S Senator George Mitchell to end almost eight months of violence.

Peres urged Russia and the United States to join their efforts as co-sponsors of the Mideast peace process to encourage face-to-face talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.

In turn, Ivanov said that Russia is ready to support any political initiative helping to establish peace in the Middle East.

Russia has played a small role in the Mideast peace process, compared with the United States.

Moscow has developed friendly relations with Israel after decades of animosity, but has largely lost its former clout with the Palestinians and other Soviet-era allies in the Arab world.

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