(18 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST :
1. Exterior of the Presidential palace in Cairo
2. Various of photo opportunity with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana
3. Wide of news conference with Solana and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy :
"We have to get out of the situation in which only measures for confidence are build... building confidence measures. I think we have to enter the political process and this is what I think we agree in a fundamental manner; several countries, the European Union and several countries in the region and particularly with Egypt."
5. Wide of news conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egyptian Foreign Minister:
"We are acting, as I stated in Luxor, on two stages; the first one to pacify, stabilise and build up trust and confidence between the two parties (the Israelis and the Palestinians) and that is a growing concern, that is an issue that is being treated with, or tackled. And then the political horizon, according to Americans, the frame work understandings according to the Europeans and the end games according to the Egyptians, is to come through discussions and then negotiations and from there, we cover 2007 with an agreement that will be implemented over whatever period of time."
7. Solana and Aboul Gheit leaving news conference
STORYLINE :
EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana met Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday, at the start of his Middle East tour, intended to revive the drive for peace in the region.
Before leaving Brussels on Wednesday, Solana said that the time was right for a new push for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Speaking at a news conference with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Thursday, Solana said "I think we have to enter the political process and this is what I think we agree in a fundamental manner; several countries, the European Union and several countries in the region and particularly with Egypt."
While Aboul Gheit said that to "pacify, stabilise and build up trust and confidence between the two parties" referring to the Israelis and the Palestinians, was a "growing concern."
After Egypt, Solana was expected to visit the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Israel, before returning to brief EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday.
His trip follows a tour of the region by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, as international powers search for a way to breathe new life into the battered peace process.
Rice said on Monday the United States will gather Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state.
The three-way US-Israeli-Palestinian meeting would be the first among the main parties thought necessary to draft any settlement in the six-decade-long dispute.

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