Canadian FM visits West Bank, meets Abbas, Pal FM

Описание: (13 Jan 2008)
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1. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier's motorcade arrives at the headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
2. Bernier walking up the steps of the headquarter building
2. Mid of Abbas meeting Bernier
3. Close up of Abbas, pan left to Bernier
4. Various of Palestinian and Canadian officials
5. Wide of news conference of Bernier with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Al Maliki
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maxime Bernier, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister:
"I am here because as you know, last November in Annapolis Palestinians and Israelis agreed to work out a peace agreement by the end of 2008, I came to the region to boost this process."
7. Wide of news conference
8. Bernier and Al Maliki leaving the room
STORYLINE:
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Sunday.
Afterwards held a press conference with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al Maliki.
"I am here because as you know, last November in Annapolis Palestinians and Israelis agreed to work out a peace agreement by the end of 2008, I came to the region to boost this process," Bernier, who is on a regional tour said.
He is expected to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad later in the day.
Bernier is then scheduled to meet with various Israeli officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, in Tel Aviv to discuss Canadian and Israeli foreign policy in the Middle East.

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