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This Week In History 12/13 - 12/19 (Footage by Getty Images)

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After 10 days of U-N talks, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz has said Iraq wants to pursue its dialogue with the United Nations to resolve the weapons inspection cr
isis.
In a...

1. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer enters Senate Foreign Relations room

2. Cutaway repo
rters
3. Fischer meets Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Richard Lugar (Republican
, Indiana)
German...

British Pool

Andrews Air Force
Base
1. Pull out of Blair shaking hands and then running up stair
s to plane
2. Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
boarding plane
3. Pan
of plane taking...

1. Plane on runway

2. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan leaves
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an
4. Media
5. Various of Annan wal
king towards airpor
t
6. Airport building
7. Annan walking, surrou
nded by reporters and...

1. Flags

2. Wide shot of Ivory Coast Foreign Affairs Minister Amadou Soumahoro and UNDP representative Mustapha bin-Lanly walking along red carpet onto r
unway
3. Mid sh
ot of same
4. Various of
plane...

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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for efforts to continue to find a diplomatic solution to the confrontation between the United States and
Iraq.
But in Baghdad it appeared...

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U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has arrived in Moscow, part of a small army of diplomats trying to persuade Russia to take a broader role in resolving the Kosovo conf
lict.
Western countries are keen to...

1. Tilt up exterior of United Nations (UN) building

2. Indonesian Foreign Minister, Hassan Wirajuda, walking into room and greeting UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan for photo opport
unity
3. Wirajuda, Annan and...

1. Various shots of inspectors leaving hotel carrying suitcases to waiting bus

2. Various shots of inspectors loading suitcases and boxes of equipment ont
o bus
3. Inspectors bo
arding bus
4. Wide...

1. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

2. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, in procession with Russian guards carrying wreath up to
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4. R
ussian soldiers
5. Anna
n in fro
nt of wreath
6. Annan
7....

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Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last...

1. Various shots of UN security

2. Wide shot of ai
rport
3. UN official gets o
ut of jeep
4. Various shots of plane carrying UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan on tarmac
5. Various shots of Annan being greeted...

1. Zoom out from flags in front of UN headquarters to heavily armed police officers in front of building

2. Various of police cars parked near buil
ding
3. Police officer
s talking
4. Close up of another...

1. Motorcade of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga arriving, Odinga getting out of car and entering building

2. International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, arriving and entering...

1. Various of helicopter landing

2. Tracking shot of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arriving and greeting offi
cials
3. Annan gettin
g into car
>4. Car leaving
5. Tracking shot of convoy leaving, pull out
to Tel...

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There are increasing hopes that the dispute between Iraq and the United Nations will be resolved peacef
ully.
Kofi Annan - the U-N Secretary-General - spent three hours in talks with President Saddam...

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh at the start of the two day Mideast Summit on MOn
day..
He was welcomed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who...

1. Wide shot British Prime Minister Tony Blair's plane comes to a halt

2. British embassy officials waiting on t
armac
3. Tony Blair walks down steps of plane and greets embassy
officials
4. Various shots of...

1. Wide of Nairobi

2. Mid of traffic on
road
3. Various of people walking
on street
4. Close-up of Saturday Nation Daily Newspaper headlines reading(English): "Nakuru erupts", pan to Saturday Standard...

1. Various plume of smoke rising from behind buildings

2. Cloud of black smoke r
ising
3. Wide sh
ot of Tyre
4. Plume
of smoke rising
5. Various wide sho
ts of plume of smoke
6. Plume of smoke
rising from...