(6 Dec 2004)
1. Wide of Palace of Culture where Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting is being held
2. Security on roof of building
3. Various of security
4. Security checking documents
5. Convoy arriving with police escort
6. EU Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner arriving
7. Various of arrivals
8. Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov arriving
9. Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe Coburg Gotta arriving
10. Roundtable
11. Wide of delegates
12. Russian delegates
13. Bosnian delegates
14. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian President:
(Partly overlaid with Bosnian delegates)
"The international community has an interest in what is happening in Ukraine. The republic of Bulgaria welcomes any developments in the name of peace in that country."
15. Bulgarian delegates
16. Roundtable
STORYLINE:
Foreign ministers from member states of Europe's leading election monitoring agency met on Monday to look into peaceful solutions to Ukraine's political crisis.
The 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was among a number of international vote monitoring groups to find irregularities in the November 21 runoff between Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko.
It has said it will send observers for the rerun, scheduled for December 26, 2004.
Officials estimate the number of OSCE observers could be doubled to one thousand for the new vote.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are expected to be among those in Sofia for the OSCE meeting.
The two-day OSCE meeting at Sofia's Palace of Culture will also shape strategies for the future of the organisation.
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said the international community had an interest in what was happening in Ukraine and welcomed any development "in the name of peace in that country."
The OSCE currently runs 18 field missions, including programmes to train police agencies, monitor elections and support democratic institutions.
The OSCE's Bulgarian presidency states that it aims to prioritise fighting racism, anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination and intolerance.
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