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(15 Oct 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide interior of State Council Taiwan Affairs Office media conference
2. Wide cutaway of cameras
3. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Yi, Spokesman for State Council Taiwan Affairs Office:
" Director Chen Yunlin's visit to Taiwan is part of the established arrangements of the systematic consultations between the two organisations (the mainland-based the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and the Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation). All the topics that the consultation touches are issues of great concern to the Taiwan compatriots. The consultation is actually trying to do useful and good things for the people across the strait, so I think the Taiwan compatriots will support and welcome the visit."
4. Medium of reporter asking question
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Yi, Spokesman for State Council Taiwan Affairs Office:
"The two sides will negotiate on direct sea transportation, direct cargo flight, charter flight, the establishment of direct aviation routes, and the direct mail service during director Chen Yunlin's visit to Taiwan. Now the conditions to resolve this issues are ripe and the mainland side is ready to go, and the key now is to sign the agreements and get them implemented properly."
6. Wide of media conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yang Yi, Spokesman for State Council Taiwan Affairs Office:
"As to the food safety issue both sides concerned, the two organisations have decided to include the issue to the topics of the consultation. We hope we can reach consensus on this issue and sign an agreement so as to safeguard the well-being of the people across the strait."
8. Wide of reporters
9. Wide of press with spokesman leaving podium
STORY LINE:
Talks between China and Taiwan on food safety are set to go ahead after a statement was released by the mainland's office for Taiwan Affairs in Beijing on Wednesday.
The mainland's most senior official, Chen Yunlin, will visit Taiwan at the end of this year and food safety will be one of the topics on his agenda, according to the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman.
The two sides will try to reach consensus on the food safety issue during the visit of Chen Yunlin, the chairman of the semi-official Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).
Some other topics including postal, transport links will also be discussed during the consultations.
Chen told reporters earlier last month that he will visit Taiwan by the end of the year.
Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has warned of organising massive campaign to protest Chen's visit to Taiwan.
The opposition party said the recent "poisonous milk" imported from China has already stirred public emotions against the government and have led to renewed animosity toward rival China and raising doubts about Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's push for closer economic ties with the mainland.
ARATS' Taiwanese counterpart, the Straits Exchange Foundation, said Taiwan will send a delegation of six food and health experts to Beijing on Saturday to better understand the milk contamination.
"The two sides will also discuss establishing a food and health safety mechanism," the Foundation said in a statement.
Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949, and Beijing still claims the island as part of its territory.

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