ISRAEL: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL MEETS INCOMING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON
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ISRAEL: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL MEETS INCOMING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON
- Title: ISRAEL: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL MEETS INCOMING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON
- Date: 25th February 2001
- Summary: JERUSALEM (FEBRUARY 25, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV PULL IN MCU UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ELECT ARIEL SHARON STANDING TOGETHER IN FRONT OF FLAGS PULL OUT SLV OF POWELL AND SHARON SITTING 0.26 2. MCU MEDIA 0.29 3. SV SHARON AND POWELL ENTER FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 0.39 4. LV PRESS CONFERENCE 0.42 5. MCU (English) US SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYING: "All of us have to be vigilant recognizing that these terrible weapons he is trying to build will be aimed at the people of the region. He has shown once before that he is more than willing to use weapons of this nature to the people of this region to pursue his own ends. So I think this German report, once we've all had a chance to see it and assess it, will help make the case to the people of the region and the people of the world that Saddam Hussein must be contained until he comes to his senses, until the international community is assured he is not pursuing that kind of technology or any technology." 1.22 6. LV REPORTERS AT NEWS CONFERENCE AT THE KING DAVID HOTEL 1.26 7. MCU (English) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ELECT, AERIAL SHARON SAYING:"One thing should be clear - Israel will not negotiate under pressure of terror and violence." 1.34 8. SV/LV OF NEWS CONFERENCE (2 SHOTS) 1.42 9. SV POWELL MEETING WITH ISRAELI PRESIDENT MOSHE KATZAV AT THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE AT DINNER 1.57 10. LV PULL IN SV KATSAV AND POWELL STANDING ON PODIUM, POWELL SIGNING VISITORS BOOK IN RESIDENCE 2.08 11. SV CHOIR SINGING 2.15 12. SLV OF POWELL TOURING MUSEUM 2.22 13. LV POWELL IN THE HALL OF REMEMBRANCE 2.34 14. SLV/LV POWELL IN CEREMONY IN HALL OF REMEMBRANCE (2 SHOTS) 3.12 15. MCU POWELL SIGNING GUEST BOOK/OFFICIALS LOOKING (2 SHOTS) 3.24 16. MCU (English) US SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL SAYING, "I leave with the inspiration that it has given all of us that we must never forget, never forget always remember the spirit of those who perished during those terrible times."/POWELL GIVEN A SOUVENIR FROM MUSEUM BY DIRECTOR OF MUSEUM 3.49 17. TV POWELL MOTORCADE LEAVING MUSEUM 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JERUSALEM
- Country: Israel
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- Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday
(February 25) during a trip to Israel that Iraq must be
contained after reports that Saddam Hussein may have nuclear
weapons in three years.
During a trip to the disputed city of Jerusalem, Powell
visited the Holocaust museum, saying there was a need to
remember the past to build a peaceful future.
Powell, on a whirlwind tour to Middle Eastern countries
which began in Egypt, has been trying to gain support for
maintaining sanctions against Iraq.
He was speaking during a news conference with incoming
Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, who said violence must
stop before he would negotiate with the Palestinians.
Reports that Iraq may have nuclear weapons in three years
underline the need to contain Iraqi President Saddam Hussein,
Powell said.
The reports, from German intelligence, should reinforce to
Arab countries "that we have to reinforce the U.N. resolutions
that Saddam Hussein agreed to at the end of the (1991) Gulf
War," he said after talks with Ariel Sharon.
"We have to make sure he is denied the opportunity to
continue moving in this direction," Powell said. "We have to
make sure that we do everything we can to contain him, to
constrain him, to get inspectors back in under the terms of
the U.N. resolutions..."
Powell said the weapons Saddam was trying to develop would
be aimed at the people of the region.
The German intelligence report, published in German
newspapers on Saturday, said Iraq might be able to menace its
neighbours with nuclear weapons in three years and fire a
missile as far as Europe by 2005.
Powell met caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Barak late on
Saturday following his arrival and was scheduled to meet
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat later on Sunday in the
town of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Powell's whirlwind tour of the Middle East, during which
he will visit Arab countries, is his first since taking
office. His first stop was Egypt where he focussed mainly on
Iraq.
Sharon set an end to violence as a condition for peace
talks with the Palestinians and said Arafat had to take steps
before Israel would ease economic sanctions.
"The Palestinian Authority must take immediate action to
stop terror and violence...I will conduct negotiations with
the Palestinian Authority following the cessation of
hostilities," Sharon told reporters.
With Powell at his side, Sharon said: "One thing should be
clear Israel will not negotiate under pressure of terror and
violence."
Later, Powell visited one of Jerusalem's best known
memorials.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in central Jerusalem is
regularly toured by Heads of State and foreign dignitaries who
visit Israel.
Dedicated to the commemoration of those who died, it
includes documents, photographs and artefacts from the
Holocaust. One floor, the Hall of Remembrance, which Powell
toured, is marked with the names of the 21 largest
concentration and death camps.
Powell, donning a yarmulke, stood in the Hall for a
ceremony where the 'eternal flame' is lit, in remembrance of
the six million Jews killed in World War II.
Then, he signed a guest book in the museum and said those
who perished must never be forgotten.
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