(17 May 2001)
1. Red Square
2. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson coming in the hall and shaking hands with the EU leaders Romano Prodi and Javier Solana
3. Putin and Persson, with Romano Prodi, chairman of the European Commission and Javier Solana, EU foreign policy and security commissioner
4. Putin entering the conference hall and greeting delegates of the EU-Russia Summit
5. Pan conference hall
6. Putin, Persson and Prodi entering media conference
7. Press
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Goran Persson, Swedish Prime Minister saying "The European Union and Russia have a win-win situation ahead of us if we are able to develop co-operation in the economic area."
9. Cameramen
10. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President "I agree with Prime-Minister Persson, who has said that our common objective will be the establishment of a common European economic space. Speaking about time frame, five years is a term that I like much more than ten."
11. Presser
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Romano Prodi, chairman of the European Commission: "The Russian Federation and THE European Union agree to examine the issue of the use of the Euro in their trade and economic relations. This is a very significant initiative and both the European Union and Russia will benefit from the stability and boost to trade and investment that the Euro will bring."
13. Putin, Prodi, Persson and Solana leaving news conference
14. Swedish embassy exteriors
15. Wide shot news conference
16. SOUNDBITE: Goran Persson, Swedish Prime-Minister: "The cooperation between the European Union and Russia must also be built on values, democratic ideas and the willingness to go ahead with building a relation formed on such a corner stones. It is extremely important to underline. And a part of that is, of course, the civil society and a free media."
17. Limousine with the EU flag leaving
STORYLINE:
European Union leaders on Thursday urged Russia to start accepting euros instead of dollars for its exports, promising a boom in investments and trade - but the bonhomie at their summit was shadowed by EU criticism of Russia's war in Chechnya.
Russia currently gets paid in dollars for its oil and gas exports to Europe, and the EU wants to switch to euros instead. The two sides signed a joint communique agreeing to discuss the issue in detail.
Russia has hoped that Thursday's meeting would help cement its place in Europe, reflecting Moscow's apparent desire to offset a chill in relations with the United States, strained over U.S. plans for a missile defense system, spy scandals and Russian arms sales to Iran.
Romano Prodi, chairman of the European Commission, strongly pushed for the use of the euro, saying it would help bolster trade, attract new investment and balance Russia's hard currency reserves.
Putin avoided the euro issue at a news conference, but hailed Prodi's proposal to consider a concept of a common European economic space.
Putin and the EU leaders also discussed EU assistance for the destruction of Russia's chemical and nuclear weapons arsenals, environmental programs and joint action against money laundering and organized crime.
But despite the friendly atmosphere at the summit, the EU leaders prodded Putin on Chechnya.
Persson urged Russia to investigate allegations of atrocities against civilians contained in the latest report by the Human Rights Watch.
Russia strongly opposed the 1999 NATO airstrikes on Yugoslavia over Serbian violence against Kosovo Albanians.
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