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(2 Jan 2004)

1. Wide city street
2. Wide shot security outside in front of Jinnah Convention centre, SAARC summit venue
3. Pull focus gun barrel to security
4. Wide shot of vehicle check point
5. Close up security checks ID card
(Marriott Hotel)
6. Wide of SAARC member nation foreign ministers
7. Mid shot Bangladesh Foreign Minister Morshed Khan
8. Mid shot Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmud Khan, right, Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokar
9. Close up Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha
10. Mid shot Nepal and Indian Foreign Ministers
11. Wide shot ministers meeting
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yashwant Sinha, Indian Foreign Minister:
"At the end of the first day of the meeting of the council of ministers, therefore friends, I have no hesitation in saying that the Islamabad summit of the SAARC is indeed going to be an extremely successful summit of SAARC, a historic summit of SAARC because we will be adopting, or signing the agreement on free trade, we have agreed on the additional protocols with regard to terrorism, which reflects the additional obligations of the member states in terms of the multi-lateral obligations and we'll be - the heads of government, state, will be signing the social charter."
13. Cutaway press
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Yashwant Sinha, Indian Foreign Minister (Answering question on when Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will meet Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf)
"I am not in a position to end the suspense for you here and now. I'd like you to remain in suspense for a while."
15. Wide exterior shot of Marriott Hotel
16. Various of security outside hotel venue of foreign ministers meet
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Masood Khan, Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson
"I was told that there was a proposal made by the Indian delegation about single currency, and um ,about an economic union in south Asia. Our response to that this that this is a good objective, this is an objective that must be pursued. It's a long term objective but in the interim and in the immediate future we must focus on conflict resolution and (on a) solution of the problems between all members states, particularly India and Pakistan because if we resolve conflicts we shall create the right political climate."
18. Cutaway news conference
19. Pakistan Foreign Minister, Khursheed Kasuri (pink shirt) introduces Indian Foreign Minister, Yashwant Sinha (far left of shot), to the Prime Minister of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Shikandar Hayat Khan ( white hair and white moustache)
20. US Ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell talks to diplomats
21. Various of hotel banquet

STORYLINE:

The broad framework of a seven-nation free trade zone in South Asia that would bring together one-fifth of the world's population was agreed on Friday in meetings ahead of a major regional summit.

The Indian Foreign Secretary Shahshank said the accord, which would start tearing down tariffs by Jan. 1, 2006, was reached during talks between foreign ministers in Islamabad preparing for a leaders' summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, which begins Sunday.

"Informal consultations among the foreign ministers has made it possible for the SAFTA agreement to go through," said Shahshank, who goes by one name. "This is a historic summit where many momentous decisions have been made."

Indian Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said the accord could lead to even greater cooperation in the future - even a common currency - an idea that has seemed unlikely amid widespread poverty, civil war in several countries and deep-rooted tension between India and Pakistan.







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