(22 Dec 2004)
1. Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini's car pulls up in compound
2. Various shots of Palestinian Presidential Guards carrying wreath to late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's grave
3. Fini turns and walks away (Fini did not actually lay the wreath as previously reported)
4. Cars inside compound
5. Palestinian election front runner Mahmoud Abbas walking
6. Various shots of Fini and Abbas seated at photo opportunity
7. Fini and Abbas walk into press conference
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Presidential candidate:
"We have spoken with the Foreign Minister about our political worries - the financial, economics and others. We also have presented him with a vision and a review of the tour I carried out in the Arab world, and all the productive results we have achieved."
9. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Gianfranco Fini, Italian Foreign Minister:
"We have full trust in Abu Mazen, (Mahmoud Abbas) that he will exert every effort to make sure security and peace is achieved".
10. Press conference
STORYLINE:
Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday as a part of his visit to the region.
Fini walked behind Palestinian Presidential Guards as they carried a wreath to the grave of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, but did not lay the wreath himself.
He then met the Palestinian presidential election front-runner, Mahmoud Abbas, and said afterwards that he had the trust in Abbas,"that he will exert every effort to make sure security and peace is achieved."
During his meeting, he said Italian paramilitary police would begin training Palestinian security forces in the coming weeks.
Abbas said he briefed Fini on his tour through the Arab world "and all the productive results we have achieved."
Fini's visit was part of a EU effort to support the Palestinian leadership ahead of a January 9 election to find Arafat's successor.
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