(19 May 2009)
1. Wide of US president Barack Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Oval Office
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"We have seen progress stalled on this front, and I suggested to the Prime Minister that he has a historic opportunity to get a serious movement on this issue during his tenure. That means that all the parties involved have to take seriously obligations that they previously agreed to. Those obligations were outlined in the road map, they were discussed extensively in Annapolis and I think there is no reason why we should not seize this opportunity."
4. Wide of Obama and Netanyahu
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"I share with you very much the desire to move the peace process forward. And I want to start peace negotiations with the Palestinians immediately. I would like to broaden the circle of peace to include others in the Arab world. If we could Mr. President, so this vision, one that we shouldn't let go. Maybe peace for the Arab world. I want to make it clear that we do not want to govern the Palestinians. We want to live in peace with them, we want them to govern themselves, absent the handful of powers that could endanger the state of Israel. For this, there has to be a clear goal; the goal has to be an end to conflict, there will have to be compromises by Israelis and Palestinians alike. We're ready to do our share, we hope the Palestinians will do their share as well."
6. Wide of Netanyahu and Obama
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"I think we have to seize the moment. And I think we are fortunate in having a leader like President Obama and a new government in Israel. And perhaps a new understanding in the Arab world that I haven't seen in my life time. You're very kind to be calling me young but I am more than half a century old. And in my 59 years in the life of the Jewish state, there's never been a time when Arabs and Israelis see a common threat the way we see it today and also see the need to join together in working towards peace, while simultaneously defending ourselves against this common threat."
8. Wide of Obama and Netanyahu
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"The worse danger we face is that Iran will develop nuclear military capabilities. Iran openly calls for our destruction which is unacceptable by any standard. It threatens the modern Arab regimes in the Middle East. It threatens US interests worldwide. But if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it could give a nuclear umbrella to terrorists, or worse it could actually give terrorists nuclear weapons and that would put us all in grave peril."
10. Wide of Obama and Netanyahu
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"I believe that not only is it in the interest of the international community that Iran not develop nuclear weapons, I firmly believe that it is in Iran's interest not to develop nuclear weapons, because it would trigger a nuclear arms race, in the Middle East, and be profoundly destabilising in all sorts of ways. Iran can achieve its interests of security and international respect and prosperity for its people through other means, and I am prepared to make what I believe to be a persuasive argument that their should be a different course to be taken"
12. Wide of Obama at Netanyahu
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
14. Cutaway of US presidential aides Rahm Emmanuel and Robert Gibbs
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
16. Wide of Obama and Netanyahu
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