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Inspectors return to hotel after carrying out field assignment
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) returned to the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Wednesday having left earlier in the day.
Two separate convoys of UN vehicles had driven away from the...
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Syrian govt says security forces kill 3 in attack against U.S. Embassy
FILE: 6 February 2005
1. US embassy building
2. US flag flying on building
3. Traffic on street by US embassy
Gunmen apparently blew up a car outside the US Embassy and exchanged fire with Syrian guards in a bold attack inside Damascus'...
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SYND 27-5-74 KSSINGER MEETS PRESIDENT ASSAD IN DAMASCUS
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives in Damascus where he meets Syrian Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam and President Hafez Assad in final attempt to secure ceasefire in Golan Heights
1. ms Kissinger off plane and greeted...
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SYND 7 1 78 SYRIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER KHADDAM MEETS A DELEGATION OF US CONGRESSMEN IN DAMASCUS
Syria's Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim Khaddam meets with a delegation of American congressmen in Damascus.
1. ms pan, assembly 2. ms assembly members 3. ms congressmen meet Khaddam 4. gv conference table5. ms Khaddam, pan conference6....
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SYND 16 4 68 SYRIANS MILITARY TRAINING
Scenes of volunteers being instructed in military techniques in Damascus.
1. ws of exterior of building with groups of people outside
2. vs of group seated watching man instructing on rifle use
3. vs of the man instructing people on...
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SYND 2 6 76 SOVIET PRIME MINISTER KOSYGIN VISITS DAMASCUS
Soviet Prime Minister, Alexis Kosygin, is currently on a four-day visit to Syria, he was met by Syrian Premier Mahmoud al-Ayyubi, against a background of the recent massive influx of Syrian forces into Lebanon to preserve the fragile...
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Arab foreign ministers meeting in Damascus
1. Wide shot conference hall with foreign ministers
2. Mid shot Jordanian Foreign Minister, Abd Alilah Al Khatib
3. Pan across room to show dignitaries sitting, pull out to wide shot conference hall
4. Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouq Al...
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UN says team in Syria will investigate 7 sites where alleged chemical attacks took place
The UN says its inspection team currently in Syria will investigate a total of seven sites where chemical weapons were allegedly used, including a Damascus suburb where hundreds were killed last month.
The UN office in Damascus said in a...
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SYND 13-5-74 KISSINGER ARRIVES IN DAMASCUS FOR TALKS WITH PRESIDENT ASSAD
US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger arrives in Damascus for talks with President Hafez al Assad.
1. ms Kissinger and wife Nancy leaving plane
2. various of press and dignitaries greeting Kissinger
3. ms Kissinger and dignitaries...
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Syria-President Assad & Lebanese PM Hariri Meet
Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Syrian President Hafez
Assad met for talks in Damascus on Saturday (13/4) to assess the
Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
two shot Hariri and assad;
vs officials;
ws presidential palace;
hariri and...
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Weapons inspectors leave hotel to begin task of overseeing destruction of Syria's chemical weapons
A team of international weapons inspectors set off on Wednesday to begin the monumental task of overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons in the middle of a civil war.
Their task - to find, dismantle and eliminate Syrian...
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SYND 3 1 78 LYBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ALI TUREIKI ARRIVES TO DAMASCUS
Libyan Foreign Minister Ali Tureiki arriving in Damascus, Syria and later in talks with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.
++NIGHT SHOTS++1. various of Tureiki greeted ++INDOORS++2. ms Tureiki and Syrian Foreign Minister, Abdul Halim...
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Syria - Anti-government protests
Syria - Unknown gunmen at protest in Daraa, separate demo
Daraa - 8 Apr 2011
1. Pull out to wide top shot of protest
2. Protestors in the streets, barricade on fire, pull out to wide AUDIO firing (not known whether this is gunfire or...
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CAN895 CELEBRATIONS FOR ANNIVERSARY OF BA'ATHIST COUP
Anniversary of the coup which gave Syria its first Ba'athist regime.
1. tracking shot, demonstrators
2. various has demonstrators cheering and waving
3. ws marchers with banners and flags
Film: Pos - Sound: Mute - B&W - NYFilm: No...
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SYND 23 5 73 SYRIA PREPARES FOR ITS FIRST GENERAL ELECTION IN TEN YEARS
Preparations are under way for the first general election in Syria in 10 years.
1. ws government building, election banner
2. ws historic building with election posters and banners on it
3. cu election poster for all candidtates
4. ms...
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Syria - Foreign Ministers Discuss Peace
Foreign ministers from the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council
(GCC) met with their Egyptian and Syrian counterparts in Damascus
on Wednesday (27/12) to discuss the three-day peace talks betweeen
Israel and Syria being held near...
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Anti-aircraft positions in refugee camp, power plant a'math, Sidon
Ein el-Hilweh camp, Palestinian refugee camp, 40 kilometres south of Beirut
1. Various of Palestinian fighters loading gear and ammunition into anti aircraft
Jiye, 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of the Lebanese capital
2. Various of...
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Inspectors leave hotel to resume work on destroying Syria's chemical weapons program
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) left the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Wednesday in their continuing mission to deal with Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
Two separate convoys of UN...
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SYND 27-8-70 A CONFERENCE OF ARAB ECONOMIC UNITY IS HELD IN DAMASCUS
Delegates from seven Arab countries began a conference of Arab economic unity in Damascus on Wednesday to concert their economic policies
1) gv street, pan to parliament building
2) various interior of conference, delegates
3) various...
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SYND 19-8-71 DAMASCUS SUMMIT ARRIVALS
Airport arrival in Damascus of Egyptian President Sadat
1 gv aircraft taxis
2 ms Hafez al Assad and Moammar Gadhafi across tarmac
3 gv Anwar Sadat waves from plane steps
4 gv welcoming crowd
5 ms Sadat greeted
6 ms guard of...
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SYND 8 6 77 SAUDI ARABIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PRINCE FAISAL METS PRESIDENT ASSAD OF SYRIA
Meeting in Damascus between Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal and Syrian President Hafez Assad, with Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Khaddam also present.
ws street shots, Damascusms Faisal and Assad seated talkingcu...
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Fighting continues in Palestinian refugee camp
1. Wide of helicopter overhead in the sky
2. Wide of rising plume of smoke from behind buildings
3. Helicopter overhead in the sky
4. Various of shelling and bombed out buildings AUDIO: gunfire
5. Lebanese armoured personnel coming out...
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CAN533 ELI COHEN HANGED AND DISPLAYED IN DAMASCUS
Mossad agent Eli Cohen (alias Kamal Amin Ta'abet), tried and executed as an Israeli spy, is displayed, hanging, in Martyrs Square in Damascus.
1. ms Cohen hanging from scaffold in public, Martyr's Square
2. mcu noose, Cohen hanging
3....
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SYND 29 7 76 LIBYAN PREMIER JALLOUD AT TALKS WITH PALESTINIANS
Libyan Premier Abdel Salam Jalloud attending talks in the Syrian capital, Damascus, aimed at seeking a reconcilation between Syria and the Palestinlans in Lebanon.
1. ms Jalloud and advisers seated
2. mcu Jalloud
3. ms Jalloud and...