(8 Jun 2007) SHOTLIST
Gdansk
1. Wide of television trucks at airport
2. Mid shot of satellite dishes
3. Journalist and cameraman at the airport
4. Wide of tarmac, helicopter and security
5. Polish and US flags waving
6. Various of army officers and security personnel at the airport
7. Military helicopter on the tarmac
Jurata
8. Exterior of meeting venue
9. Police checking cars
10. Police cars and vans driving towards venue, AUDIO: Sirens
11. Various of protestors carrying flags gathered around the venue
12. Two boys playing music
13. Woman waving Palestinian flag
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, Protestor, Vox Pop:
"He (Bush) wants to put Poland in the figure of a Trojan horse, like to be inside Europe in order to make his wars. I don't agree with it, I don't want (him) to put the weapon in our earth, in our country."
15. Group of protestors with red banner
16. Anti-riot police arriving at the site
17. Protestors chanting slogans
18. Various of police cordoning off the protesters
STORYLINE
Dozens of protesters started to gather on Friday in the Polish seaside resort of Jurata, ahead of a visit to the country by United States (US) President George W. Bush during which he is to discuss a US request to place 10 missile interceptors in northern Poland and a related radar base in the neighbouring Czech Republic.
Bush's visit will be crucial to the Eastern European country's decision on whether to host the US missile defence base, a move which has elicited sharp threats from neighbouring Russia.
Bush and his Polish counterpart, Lech Kaczynski, are to hold two hours of talks at the president's seaside retreat.
Speaking in Jurata on Friday one protester was incensed at prospect of any missile interceptors being placed in Poland.
"He (Bush) wants to put Poland in the figure of a Trojan horse, like to be inside Europe in order to make his wars. I don't agree with it, I don't want (him) to put the weapon in our earth, in our country," she told AP Television.
However, Poland's leaders have voiced strong support for the idea and Warsaw opened formal talks with Washington on hosting the base last month.
Polish officials have said the final decision could come this autumn.
However, the plan to place missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic, two former Soviet satellites, has drawn fierce opposition from Moscow.
Moscow has denounced the plan as a threat to Russia's nuclear deterrent and President Vladimir Putin warned this week of possible "retaliatory steps" if the plan goes ahead, including targeting Europe with Russian warheads for the first time since the Cold War.
Washington has dismissed such arguments, saying the system is designed to thwart a possible attack from Iran, and poses no threat to Russia.
A top Polish negotiator on the system said last week that during his visit, Bush should give the Poles some "political feedback" on how seriously to take threats from Russia, and address what the U.S. can do to protect Poland from any Russian retaliation.
On Tuesday, Bush sought to cool the rhetoric between the former Cold War two rivals, telling a gathering of ex-dissidents in Prague, Czech Republic that the "Cold War is over" and "Russia is not an enemy."
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