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(26 May 2002)
1. Wide shot ceremony
2. East Timor independence activist Jose Ramos-Horta introducing Clinton
3. Cutaway Bill Clinton, Former US President
4. Arrival of Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri
5. John Howard, Australian Prime Minister
6. Dancers wearing traditional costume
7. Side shot of Annan
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
"At this moment we honour every citizen of East Timor who persisted in the struggle for independence, we also remember the many who are no longer with us but who dreamt of this moment. It is their day too."
9. Wide shot of Annan
10. Cutaway dignitaries
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, speaking to East Timorese president-elect Xanana Gusmao
"As Secretary General of the United Nations, I have the honour to transfer executive authority from the United Nations Transitional Administration to the institutions of the Democratic Republic of East Timor."
12. Gusmao and Annan hug, crowds cheers
13. Close up Barbara Hendrix singing "Oh Freedom."
14. Wide shot UN troops around flag
15. Low shot of flag going down
16. Wide shot troops marching
17. East Timor flag goes up
18. Pan of crowd of East Timorese clapping
19. Close up Gusmao
20. Wide shot Gusmao with parliamentary speaker
Fransisco Guterres
21. Guterres puts sash around Gusmao's shoulders after his inauguration
22. Side shot Gusmao starts soundbite
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese President:
"After our political independence, our supreme objective will be the comprehensive development of all aspects of the lives of our people from the cultural to the scientific, from the social to the economic. Our history will continue to be made by our people for the dignity of the human being, in the tolerance among groups and the respects among communities. In the collective dynamic participation of society, this will be our new philosophy as citizens, our new culture as a country and our policy as East Timorese. To the international solidarity, we extend a profound word of thanks from our people."
24. Cutaway Annan and Megawati
25. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese President
"Viva Timor Leste!"
26. Sound of crowd cheering
27. Wide shot as National Anthem is played and the flag is raised higher
28. Gusmao and flag
29. Fire works
30. Gusmao and Horta hug
31. Fireworks
32. Woman in crowd wipes away a tear
33. Men in traditional dress in crowd
34. Wide shot fireworks
STORYLINE:
East Timor has become the world's newest nation.
In a midnight (1500GMT) ceremony attended by presidents and prime ministers from around the globe, independence was declared after the United Nations ended its two year administration.
About a hundred thousand East Timorese also packed out the field in the western part of the capital, Dili for the birth of a their nation.
Kofi Annan - the UN Secretary General, handed over power to East Timor's to East Timorese president-elect Xanana Gusmao who was later inaugurated as the president.
Then the U-N flag was lowered and a giant Democratic Republic of East Timor national flag was raised on an Independence Monument constructed on a hill overlooking Dili.
International leaders who had made the long trip for the independence ceremony included former US president Bill Clinton, Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard as well as the president of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn.
The declaration of independence marked the end of centuries of foreign rule over East Timor.
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