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(FIRST RUN 1700 EUROPE EVENING, 13 APRIL 2003) 1. Tight shot of Chairman sign panning to shot of Trevor Manuel, Chairman of the World Bank Development committee and Minister of Finance, South Africa with World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn 2. Wide shot of Manuel meeting with IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler panning to Kohler sitting down 3. Wide shot of UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown 4. Wide shot of Brown shaking hands with Agness Van Ardenne, Minister for Development Cooperation, Netherlands while Manuel stands next to them 5. Wide shot of Brown 6. Wide shot of Brown talking to Masajuro Shiokawa, Minister of Finance, Japan 7. Medium shot of Shiokawa talking to US Treasury Secretary, John W. Snow 8. Wide shot of Snow and Shiokawa 9. Wide shot of Van Ardenne talking to Hiedemarie Wieczorek- Zeul, Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development panning to Kohler (FIRST RUN 1830 IRAQ SPECIAL, 13 APRIL 2003) 10. Wide shot of conference room 11. Wideshot of World Bank Chief Economist Nick Stern 12. Cutaway at news conference 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Stern, World Bank Chief Economist: "On the aid front, aid has never been more productive than it is now. Poor country policies have been improved, aid is better allocated. Aid has never been more productive than it is now. At the same time, aid as a fraction of GDP of rich countries has never been lower than it is now in the last half century or so. That is a paradox which is troubling and one which I hope that we can see moves to overcome." 14. Cutaway 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Nick Stern, World Bank Chief Economist: "On income, on current projections, we are likely to see the developed, the millennium development goal of halving the fraction of poverty between 1990-2015. We are likely to see that achieved in all regions except Sub-Saharan Africa." 16. Wideshot of Stern (FIRST RUN 2030 NORTH AMERICA LATE, 13 APRIL 2003) 17. Delegates walking in and sitting at podium 18. Cutaway media taking notes at news conference (Reporter's Q. Fact finders from the IMF and World Bank be going to Iraq when it's safe to do so?) 19. SOUNDBITE: (English), James D. Wolfensohn, World Bank President: "Yes, we were so authorised by both communities and I made very clear that that was they had in mind and there isn't any doubt about it and maybe my chairman could confirm that to you." 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Trevor Manuel,Chairman of the World Bank Development committee and Minister of Finance, South Africa: "Indeed I can confirm that." 21. Mid shot Manuel and Wolfensohn 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wolfensohn,James D. Wolfensohn, World Bank President: "So, on the Iraq debt question, I don't know when and how we would be brought in to it. When we've got an assessment of the financial situation which we don't have now, we might suggest some framework, but I think the chances are with Paris club being in it and this being bilateral debt that the bilateral s are likely to want to work it out themselves." 23. Wide shot delegates with World Bank Group sign behind them STORYLINE: The World Bank and the IMF endorsed a US request to send fact-finders to Iraq to assess rebuilding costs as finance officials wrapped up meetings on Sunday dominated by divisions over post-Saddam Iraq. The agreement to support a new United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution to rebuild Iraq came after the United States dropped its insistence that no such prerequisite was needed to initiate International Monetary Fund and the World Bank action. In turn, the Americans won approval to begin talks on reducing Iraq's massive foreign debt burden, estimated at between 60 (b) billion US dollars and 100 (b) billion. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f856ed72d764aa274aaf00282a215f0e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork