(26 Sep 2009)
1. Wide of Intercontinental Hotel with security presence outside, zoom in police car
2. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad enters the room and hugs Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Ahmadinejad then shakes hands with other people in the room while Zardari hugs other delegates
3. Delegates shaking hands
4. Ahmadinejad and Zardari pose for photographers with a long handshake
5. Ahmadinejad seated, talking with Zardari
6. Zardari seated
7. Close of Ahmadinejad
8. Police car with flashing light and security personnel outside the hotel
STORYLINE:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in New York on Friday.
It is not clear what the two leaders discussed, but nuclear power and technology may have been on the agenda in the wake of Iran's shock announcement about the existence of a new nuclear fuel facility.
The Iranian president said on Friday that the facility was legal and open for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and that the plant, which has sharpened international concern over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, was around 18 months from starting operations.
US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Iran on Friday of constructing a secret underground uranium enrichment facility and of hiding its existence from international inspectors. Ahmedinejad responded by saying that that Western powers would regret accusing Iran of concealing it.
The charges came at a meeting of the Group of 20 economic powers in Pittsburgh, and a week before direct talks with Tehran over its nuclear program.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has not been forthcoming about its nuclear program, and the U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions against Iran three times since 2006 for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment.
Pakistan has not signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty but is known to have atomic weapons, and Ahmadinejad has said Iran needs enriched uranium for medical purposes and was willing to buy it from any country that would sell.
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