(1 Dec 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Villa Madama garden shaking hands
2. Handshake
3. Flags
4. Various of family photo
5. Inside sitting down
6. Zapatero and Berlusconi sitting down and talking
7. Zapatero and Berlusconi enter news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister: (About alleged CIA flights and prisons)
"As far as the government is aware, there are no elements at this moment that permits me to say that illegal acts have been committed."
9. Cameras
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister: (About alleged CIA flights and prisons)
"I think the British presidency (of the EU) has acted properly by asking for information from the United Stated of America and the USA administration offered themselves to give those explanations and we will listen to them and the Spanish government will be vigilant and will cooperate to provide information."
11. Cameras
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Prime Minister:
"Spain and Italy agree on the idea that immigration is, without doubt, the most important issue on a short, medium and long term level that the European Union is facing."
13. News conference
14. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister:
"We will stay in Iraq even though we are planning a progressive withdrawal of our troops, which has already started, also because we have trained more than 10,000 local troops, 9,000 policemen and 1,000 Iraqi army soldiers who will substitute our troops to maintain public security."
15. Zapatero and Berlusconi shaking hands
STORYLINE
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Thursday that neither of their nations had any evidence of illegal CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) activities in their countries.
Zapatero said as far as he knew, there had been no illegal actions from the US regarding CIA activity in Spain.
Spanish reports said recently that CIA planes involved in transporting Islamic terror suspects without court knowledge had stopped over at Spanish airports.
Spanish authorities have investigated at least 10 stopovers on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca by private planes described in Spanish media reports as being operated for the CIA, and a smaller number of similar stopovers in the Canary Islands.
Spanish government will be vigilant and will cooperate to provide information," Zapatero said.
Berlusconi said his position fitted with that of Zapatero on the issue.
Both leaders praised British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's request, on behalf of all European Union (EU) members, for the US government to respond to reports of secret US-run prisons for terrorism suspects in Europe.
The reports sparked concern the CIA might have used European airports and airspace to fly suspects.
Both leaders also said they would push for concrete measures on immigration to be taken at the Brussels summit.
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