(4 Sep 2008)
1. Various of airplane carrying US vice president Dick Cheney taxiing
2. Plane taxiing close to red carpet
3. Cheney and wife coming down steps of plane, greeting officials
4. Cheney and wife walking to car.
5. Various of motorcade driving off
STORYLINE:
US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Georgia on Thursday in a show of support for the South Caucasus nation and its pro-Western president.
The visit comes a day after the White House announced a one billion (b) US dollar economic aid package for the country, ravaged by last month's war with Russia.
The trip and his meetings with President Mikhail Saakashvili have raised speculation that a US military aid package might be announced soon.
The Kremlin is unhappy with Cheney's visit and other rhetoric from Washington.
Any decision by the US to rebuild Georgia's shattered military would further provoke Moscow.
Cheney arrives after a trip to neighbouring Azerbaijan, which is the starting point for a major oil pipeline that crosses Georgia and ends in Turkey.
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