NATO and Russia resume military ties, Iran comments

Описание: (27 Jun 2009) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of motorcade arriving
2. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband getting out of car and shaking hands with officials
3. Wide of Miliband UPSOUND (English) "Where's the sun gone?"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary:
"I think we continue to believe that the engagement we've proposed with Iran is right, that we continue to say when we have concerns about treatment of Iranians, but we also leave no room for an excuse that somehow the debate that is going inside Iran is a debate between Iran and the West. It is a debate within Iran about different views on how Iran should go forward."
5. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov walking towards meeting venue with jacket over his shoulder
UPSOUND (English) Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister:
(Question: Minister, minister. What is your objective for the meeting?)
"This is not my meeting. This is the initiative of Dora Bakoyanni (Greek foreign minister). So ask her."
(Question: What are your expectations)
"Whatever Dora wants."
6. Wide of security waiting near car for Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi to exit
7. Berlusconi coming out of car
8. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner talking
9. Motorcade arriving, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis gets out of car, being greeted by Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis and entering meeting
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10. Karamanlis walking in, followed by NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Bakoyannis
11. Delegates standing ahead of roundtable meeting, pan left
12. Wide of roundtable session
13. Pan showing Lavrov, Slovakian Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, Slovenian Foreign Minister Samuel Zbogar and Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary-General: (soundbite partially overlaid by pan of room)
"We are in a process of examining the current institutional structure of the NATO-Russia Council to make it a more efficient and more valuable instrument for our political dialogue and for our practical cooperation. And as we re-launch our relations at a political level today, we do so with the aim of building together a lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area."
15. Karamanlis listening
16. Bakoyannis listening
17. Berlusconi taking seat shaking hands with delegates either side of him
18. Wide of room
STORYLINE
NATO and Russia have agreed to resume military ties after 10-month hiatus caused by Georgian war, the alliance Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Saturday.
Relations between NATO and the Russian military were frozen in the aftermath of the five-day war last August.
Although political ties thawed considerably over the past five months, there had been no formal military contacts since then.
Scheffer, who is ending his term as NATO head, said it had been his ambition to leave his successor with a NATO-Russia Council that was "up and running."
He said that aim had been achieved at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers with their Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the Greek island of Corfu.
It was the first high-level meeting since the Georgian war.
"We are in a process of examining the current institutional structure of the NATO-Russia Council to make it a more efficient and more valuable instrument for our political dialogue and for our practical cooperation," Scheffer said as the meeting began.
"As we re-launch our relations at a political level today, we do so with the aim of building together a lasting and inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area."
Greece currently holds the rotating chairmanship.

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