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SYND 31 1 75 FOREIGN MINISTER OF LEBANON AND SYRIA MEET IN DAMASCUS
Lebanese Foreign Minister Philippe Takla and Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam meet at Syria - Lebanese border and drove to Damascus for talks.
1. ms two ministers kiss and shake hands 2. cu border stone between Syria and...
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SYND 27 3 68 PRO-VIETNAM RALLY IS HELD IN DAMASCUS
Damascus rally supporting The Struggle Of The North Vietnamese Peoples' Struggle. Syrian Minister for Education al Ghazzi and Hussein Bateekh speak at the rally.
1. ms interior Communist Chinese representatives arrive and are greeted
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SYND 8 11 77 BELGIAN FOREIGN MINSTER SIMONET MEETS PRESIDENT ASSAD IN DAMASCUS
Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet visits Syria's President Hafez Assad in Damascus.
1. ms Assad and Simonet seated talking
2. mcu Simonet
3. ms officals with pan to Assad and Simonet
4. mcu Assad with pan to Simonet and pan to...
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Syria - Christopher Resuming Talks With Assad
Us Secretary of State Warren Christopher returned to Damascus on
Tuesday (14/3) to resume talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad.
Christopher spent five hours with the president on Monday before
flying to Jordan and then on to...
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United Nations inspection team leaves hotel
A team of international weapons experts left their Damascus hotel early on Friday, heading out on their fourth day of work in Syria.
Their mission - endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution last week - is to scrap Syria's capacity...
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SYND 11 7 76 KING HUSSEIN ARRIVES FOR TALKS WITH IN DAMASCUS
King Hussein of Jordan flew to Damascus for talks on developments in the Lebanese situation with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria.
1. ws plane arrives
2. ws Assad waiting on tarmac
3. ms Hussein leaves plane and meets Assad
4. ms...
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MIDDLE EAST: WEST BANK & GAZA STRIP CLOSED OFF
Natural Sound
Israel closed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Friday, banning Palestinians from entering Israel.
The closure came in response to two bomb attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded 16 on Thursday.
Two small bombs...
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SYND 16 4 68 BULGARIAN DELEGATION VISITS
A Bulgarian economic delegation is in Damascus to discuss assistance for development projects.
1. ws with pan and tilt down to door of exterior of the Syrian ministry of finance
2. ms Avramov arrives
3. ms delegations into ministry
4. ms...
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Chemical weapons inspectors return after latest field visit
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) returned to their hotel in Damascus on Sunday following their latest field visit to deal with Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
A convoy of UN vehicles...
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Team of UN weapons experts leave hotel in Damascus
A group of UN inspectors in Syria continued on Sunday to investigate sites of alleged chemical attacks in the country.
At least four UN vehicles drove away from the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Sunday morning.
Their destination was...
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Turkish military maintain high profile presence on Syrian border
1. Various of Turkish soldiers on border with Syria
2. Various of tanks along border
3. Various of Tal Abyad, Syria, as seen from Turkish side of border
A strong Turkish military presence continued to be in place along the country's...
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International envoy arrives in Damascus via Beirut
Damascus
1. Pan across Sheraton hotel
2. Tracking shot of international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad entering hotel lobby and walking towards lifts
3. Tracking shot of Miqdad leaving...
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SYND 20 7 76 SHATILA GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE IN DAMASCUS ABOUT LEBANON
Shatila (found as name of area of Beirut, and refugee camp, but not individual) press conference in Damascus
1. various shots man talking about Lebanon sitiation
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UN Inspectors leave hotel on 2nd day of scheduled visits to site of alleged chemical attack
The head of the UN chemical inspectors team, Ake Sellstrom, and the UN's disarmament chief, Angela Kane, left their hotel in Damascus on Tuesday.
Their destination was not yet known.
The Syrian foreign minister later said that the...
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UNUSED 10/12/80 ASSAD AND KHADDAM IN A MEETING IN DAMASCUS
Syrian President Hafez al Assad and Foreign Secretary Abdul Halim Khaddam meet the Arab League Secretary General, Tunisian Chedli Kilbi, in Damascus.
1. ms Assad and Kilbi seated, talking, zoom in and out
2. ms Syrian Foreign Minister...
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Six fighter jets deployed from UK to Cyprus, scene at base
Britain's air force sent six Typhoon fighter jets to an airbase in Cyprus on Thursday, as British politicians debated the issue of possible military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for its alleged use of...
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Ceasefire efforts by UN and Arab League envoy to Syria appear to be faltering
1. Tilt up of DamaRose hotel where UN and Arab League Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi is staying
2. Brahimi switching lifts in hotel
3. Pan of UN convoy leaving hotel
4. Pan of Brahimi back in hotel
United Nations and Arab League Envoy...
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UN observers return to capital after second visit to massacre village
United Nations (UN) observers investigating a reported mass killing in the Syrian village of Tremseh returned to their base at the Dama Rose Hotel in Damascus on Sunday evening.
Earlier on Sunday they had paid a second visit to the...
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Suicide bomber blamed for blast in police bus, at least 10 dead
1. Close-up front of damaged bus, pull out to wide with people standing about
2. Close-up debris from blast, pan to damaged vehicles
3. Emergency vehicles at scene, pan to damaged vehicles and people standing about
4. Pan damaged...
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SYND 19-4-74 INDEPENDANCE DAY PARADES
Parades in the streets of Damascus celebrating the Syrian independence day.
1. vs parade marchers with flags
2. ms banner with portrait of Hafez al Assad
3. vs marchers
4. ms exterior illuminated building
5. vs marchers with...
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Palestinian leader Abbas meeting President Mubarak
1. Exterior of the Egyptian Presidential Palace
2. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sitting together
3. Close up of Abbas
4. Close up of Mubarak
5. Mubarak and Abbas sitting together
6. The...
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SYND 30 7 76 KADDOUMI AND KHADDAM AT PLO PEACE SIGNING
Syrian Deputy Premie Abdul Halim Khaddan and the Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO) political leader Farouk Kaddoumi signing a peace accord and exchanging documents at a ceremony in Damascus.
1. various shots Khaddam And Kaddoumi...
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SYND 7 5 77 SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD VISITS CEMETERY ON MARTYRS DAY
In the Syrian capital of Damascus, President Assad visits the Martyrs' Cemetery to lay a wreath marking Martyrs' Day.
1. ws cemetery 2. ms soldiers with large wreath, Assad and officials3. ms flame, pan to Assad laying wreath 4. ms...
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UN inspection team leaves hotel in Damascus
International chemical-weapons inspectors left their Damascus hotel on Thursday morning for a second full day of securing the sites where they intend to work.
The team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)...