President Putin meets Vicente Fox

(21 Jun 2005) SHOTLIST

1. Exterior of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
2. Mid shot Kremlin
3. Mexican President Vicente Fox enters meeting hall and shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin
4. Press
5. Both presidents and officials sit down
6. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President
"(Part overlaid over previous shot) Dear Mr President, please accept my heartfelt greetings to you in Moscow. I am certain, Mr President, that your visit will give another impulse to our successful cooperation."
7. Mid shot of Fox
8. Mid shot Putin and Fox enter room for talks, Fox shakes hands with Russian ministers
9. Mid shot Putin
10. Wide shot talks
11. Mid shot Fox and Mexican officials
12. Wide shot talks
13. Mid shot Mexican Energy Minister Fernando Elisondo signing a protocol of intent on energy cooperation
14. Mid shot Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko signing protocol
15. Cutaway media and audience
14. Wide shot ministers signing papers in front of Putin and Fox seated at press conference
15. Wide shot press conference
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Vicente Fox, Mexican President
"We discussed energy, among other issues we discussed the issue of natural gas, liquid gas and development of gas supply."
17. Press
18. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President
"As far as our guest's visit to Kremlin is concerned, I am very happy that the shadows of Stalin and Trotsky do not prevent him from feeling himself comfortable here."
19. Mid shot Putin and Fox seated at press conference, smiling
20. Wide shot press conference

STORYLINE:

President Vladimir Putin and his Mexican counterpart, Vicente Fox held meetings on Tuesday and discussed Russia's plans to supply Mexico with liquefied natural gas from Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.

The talks are part of a push to step up energy cooperation between two major oil producers.

It's the first visit by a Mexican president since the 1991 Soviet collapse, which comes a year after Putin visited him in Mexico.

Each leader praised the other for the economic growth their countries have experienced during their terms.

Putin and Fox oversaw the signing of four bilateral agreements by top officials, including one aimed at stepping up energy cooperation.

Fox said he and Putin also discussed other prospects for energy cooperation, and that Russia had expressed interest in deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fox was staying in the Kremlin during his two-night visit, which is unusual.

Putin joked that "As far as our guest's visit to Kremlin is concerned, I am very happy that the shadows of Stalin and Trotsky do not prevent him from feeling himself comfortable here."

Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky was assassinated with an ice pick in Mexico in 1940 after falling afoul of Stalin.

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