Rice meets Jiang Zemin, Randt

Описание: (8 Jul 2004)

1. Medium shot and pan from US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice arriving, shaking hands with former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and zoom in
2. Wide exterior Yintai Palace where the meeting takes place
3. Medium exterior Yintai Palace
4. Wide shot Rice and Jiang talking and laughing
5. Close shot Jiang speaking
6. Rice and Jiang talking
7. Close shot Rice speaking
8. Members of US delegation
9. Chinese officials
10. Wide shot meeting
11. Rice walking to shake hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing in Chinese Foreign Ministry building, Rice and Li pose for photo-opportunity
12. Zoom out from hands to Li and Rice on the way to meeting room, Li shaking hands with US ambassador Clark T. Randt
13. Cutaway cameraman
14. Wide shot meeting between Li Zhaoxing and Rice
15. Li with Chinese delegation
16. Li talking
17. Rice talking
18. National flags of China and the US on the table
19. Rice talking
20. Wide shot meeting

STORYLINE

US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on Thursday said she planned to discuss efforts to persuade North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programme during talks with Chinese leaders.

Rice had meetings with Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and former president Jiang Zemin, who is chairman of the Communist Party commission that runs China's military forces.

Rice said she was also in China to nurture closer ties.

"The relationship is broadening and deepening, and I look forward to a chance to talk further about our efforts at cooperation in the interests of peace and security," she told Jiang at the start of their meeting at the compound in central Beijing where Chinese leaders live and work.

Chinese officials said they also expected to discuss Taiwan and Beijing's insistence that Washington oppose formal independence for the island, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.

On Friday, Rice was due to meet President Hu Jintao.

Rice arrived in China from Tokyo, where she told Japanese Prime Junichiro Koizumi on Wednesday that Washington considered ending the North's nuclear weapons development an "urgent issue".

China has arranged three rounds of talks among the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia on Washington's demand that the North give up its nuclear weapons programme.

During the latest round of six-nation talks last month, Washington offered the North energy aid and a security guarantee in exchange for dismantling its nuclear programme.

The dispute erupted in 2002 when Washington said Pyongyang had admitted running a secret nuclear programme in violation of a 1994 deal under which it received energy aid.

Rice's three-nation Asian tour also includes a stop in South Korea.

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