(28 Jun 2008)
1. Wide of Government official mansion
2. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko shaking hands and taking seats
3. Mid of cameras
4. Various of Putin and Tymoshenko sitting, talking for cameras
5. Putin and Tymoshenko entering hall
6. Mid of journalists
7. Pan from Russian delegation to Ukrainian delegation during talks
8. Mid of Putin talking
9. Various of Tymoshenko and Ukrainian delegation
10. Mid of cameramen and photographers
11. Tymoshenko and Putin walking out speak to journalists
12. Line of cameras
13. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister:
"We were very much determined to move to European pricing gradually, but our Central Asian partners want to do so from January 1, 2009. At the moment we are in the process of talks and it is too early to talk about its results. As for the gas price and transit it should to be decided by companies."
14. Wide of media
15. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister:
"We wish to share special hopes on agreements that we reached in the course of meeting today. We have 11 special priorities which were formulated two months ago. Today nine of them have been approved and we have a bold schedule of action. And this schedule gives us new impulse and new strength for cooperation."
16. Mid of officials
17. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister:
"As for sensitive technologies, and first of all high-tech rocket technologies, and some other modern military technologies, we will think beforehand in this case (on Ukraine joining NATO) on how to move them, despite any financial expenses for Russia."
18. Wide of cameraman
19. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian Prime Minister:
"As for the joining of Ukraine to NATO, I want firmly assure that basic point for us will be the opinion of the Ukrainian people. That's why any path of Ukraine movement in this direction will be undertaken only after an all-Ukrainian referendum, when people could say a word on it."
20. Wide of briefing
21. Tymoshenko and Putin shaking hands and leaving hall
STORYLINE:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met in Moscow on Saturday with his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko to discuss current economic issues between the two countries.
Tymoshenko said Russia and Ukraine had agreed action plans for nine out of eleven areas of economic cooperation.
"We have a bold schedule of action. And this schedule gives us new impulse and new strength for cooperation," said Tymoshenko.
Putin warned Ukraine over its NATO bid and threatened to terminate lucrative deals with Ukrainian arms and space facilities if the ex-Soviet neighbour joins the alliance.
Ukraine has a massive arms and electronics industry inherited from the Soviet era that relies on contracts with Russia's military and space agencies.
The industry remains state-owned and poorly adjusted to business-oriented relations with the West.
Putin said on Saturday in televised remarks that Ukraine would have to invest heavily into retrofitting its arms industry for production of weapons according to the Western alliance's standards.
"As for sensitive technologies, and first of all high-tech rocket technologies, and some other modern military technologies, we will think beforehand in this case on how to move them, despite any financial expenses for Russia," said Putin.
Moscow vehemently opposes efforts by Ukraine as well as Georgia to gain NATO membership, saying that would jeopardise Russia's security.
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