EU parliament delegation at Russian checkpoint, monitors patrol

Описание: (2 Oct 2008)
Karaleti
1. Wide of Russian checkpoint in Karaleti
2. Russian soldiers at checkpoint
3. Cars approaching checkpoint
4. Russian soldier approaching car
5. Russian soldiers around OSCE car
6. Soldier talking on radio
7. Pan from EU delegation to Russian checkpoint
8. Set up of Pawel Bartlomiej Piskorski, Vice Chairman of delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pawel Bartlomiej Piskorski, Vice Chairman of EU delegation for relations with NATO Parliamentary Assembly:
"We are trying to check what is the situation right now in Georgia. And our visit here at the checkpoint is a part of it. We are trying to see if the Russians are willing to fulfil all those agreements. Because we are also, European Parliament, responsible for the budget problems, so we are trying to see what are the real needs of Georgia after the war."
10. Cutaway of cameraman
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pawel Bartlomiej Piskorski, Vice Chairman of Delegations of relations with NATO
"I would say that we perfectly know that Russian standards of dealing with international policy is different from ours, and we will try to do everything to change their way of thinking."
12. Wide of Russian flag, barbed wire in foreground
13. Pan of Russian bunker
14. Soldiers at the checkpoint checking cars
15. Wide of checkpoint
Akhmaji
16. Sign reading Akhmaji
17. Various of Russian vehicles driving on road
18. Close-up of Russian soldiers with machine gun
19. Russian vehicles driving away
20. Various of EU monitors observing with binoculars
21. Close-up of British and EU emblems on arm of EU monitor
22. Wide of EU monitors observing Akhmaji
23. EU monitors taking notes
24. EU monitor using binoculars
25. Wide of EU monitors
26. Close-up of European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) sign on car
27. EU monitors' car driving away
STORYLINE:
European Union monitors continued their mission in Georgia on Thursday, with a delegation visiting a Russian checkpoint at Karaleti, on the perimeter of Russia's so-called "security zone" on Georgian territory.
A Russian statement on Tuesday, which said monitors would not be allowed on Georgian territory around the separatist region of South Ossetia, had raised concern that Moscow was stalling on withdrawing its troops from Georgia as it promised to do after the August war with Georgia.
But when EU observers arrived on Wednesday at Russian checkpoints near the Georgian villages of Karaleti and Kvenatkotsa, Russians quickly let them move into the area.
The Russian soldiers didn't allow reporters to follow the observers into the buffer zone near Kvenatkotsa, but let Georgian civilians pass after examining their vehicles.
EU monitors visiting the Karaleti checkpoint on Thursday were led by Pawel Bartlomiej Piskorski, Vice Chairman of the EU's Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
He said the purpose of the visit was to check Russia was fulfilling its agreements under a French-brokered cease-fire deal, and also to assess the needs of Georgia following the war.
"I would say that we perfectly know that Russian standards of dealing with international policy is different from ours, and we will try to do everything to change their way of thinking", he added.
Another group of EU monitors visited the village of Akhmaji, the last village before the so-called buffer-zone surrounding South Ossetia, where they could be seen using binoculars to observe Russian troop movement.

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