(30 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Various of convoy of cars arriving for talks
2. Albanian delegates getting out of car
3. US envoy Frank Wisner getting out of car and walking by reporters
4. Russian envoy Alexander Botsan Kharchenko walking into building
5. German envoy Wolfgang Ischinger getting out of car and walking up to reporters
6. Security outside meeting venue
7. Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim Ceku talking to reporter in hotel
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"What we are expecting from this meeting today is that international troika to understand our position, to respect everything that has been achieved so far in this process led by President Ahtisaari, to help us protect our lines and to help us make progress when we can make progress on this technical issue and to help us to start establishing a working relationship with our neighbour Serbia."
9. Ceku talking to reporter in hotel
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Agim Ceku, Kosovo's Prime Minister:
"We would like and we have proven until now that we would like to conclude this process in partnership with the international community. That's the reason why we are here, we didn't like all this delay - we thought this was unnecessary but our international partners have asked us to make additional efforts and we're here to make that additional effort, but this is continuation of the process this must be a conclusion of the process. After this, no more delay. Nothing will be more acceptable to us and we can not afford as leaders, as a nation so we cannot afford further uncertainty. We need a decision and I think we would like to have a UN security council resolution. And we are asking the international community to try only once - if we cannot get a UN security council resolution - to support Ahtisaari to open the way for us to declare independence. We have to declare and we are going to ask the international community to recognise us."
11. Wide of exterior of Austrian Foreign Ministry building
12. Close up of European Union Flag on top of building
STORYLINE
Ethnic Albanian and Serbian negotiators prepared to open a new round of internationally brokered talks on Thursday about the future status of Kosovo, as the province's Prime Minister Agim Ceku said he wanted to "start establishing a working relationship" with Serbia.
Ethnic Albanian leaders and Serbia's officials will discuss the province's future political status with envoys from the United States, European Union and Russia.
Officials say a much hoped for breakthrough is unlikely.
The troika, as the group of envoys is known, is to report to UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon on the progress of the talks by December 10.
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations (UN) and NATO since a 78-day air war against the former Yugoslavia to try to end the fighting after a crackdown by Serb forces on separatist Albanians.
The province formally remains part of Serbia although daily affairs are run by local institutions dominated by ethnic Albanians and supervised by the UN.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders want independence but Serbia is reluctant to give up control of a province that it sees as the spiritual birthplace of the Serbian nation and the heart of its medieval kingdom.
Prime Minister Ceku said that he would like to come to a conclusion "in partnership with the international community."
But, he added that the only acceptable solution is independence for the Balkan province.
Ethnic Albanian leaders and Serbia previously engaged in yearlong talks led by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, acting on a UN mandate.

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