Pres Bush at Austrian President's office for US EU summit, roundtable

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AP Television 1. Wide of US President George W. Bush's motorcade arriving at office of the Austrian President 2. Tighter shot US car 3. Mid of people arriving , zoom out to wide of presidential office exterior 4. Bush and Austrian President Heinz Fischer walking through corridor 5. Bush and Fischer entering room and shaking hands for photo-op 6. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik joining in photo-op 7. Wide of photo-op 8. Bush, Fischer, Rice and Plassnik leaving room POOL 9. Bush, Fischer, Rice and Plassnik at roundtable meeting STORYLINE Amid unprecedented security and public hostility, US President George W. Bush met with senior EU officials on Wednesday in a summit overshadowed by European demands on Washington to close its detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Bush, the first American president to visit Austria since Jimmy Carter signed the SALT II nuclear arms pact with the Soviets in Vienna in 1979, started the day by posing for photographers Austrian President Heinz Fischer, Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The US president then held talks with President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel of Austria, which holds the European Union's rotating presidency. The three, joined by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, then planned to work through lunch on a wide range of issues including trade, global energy security, climate change, the Middle East and the international effort to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. But across the 25-nation bloc, mounting discontent over Guantanamo, the continuing US-led campaign in Iraq and the alleged existence of secret CIA terror prisons in Eastern Europe threatened to eclipse the talks. Bracing for a flurry of threatened anti-Bush demonstrations, Austria's Interior Ministry was deploying some 3,000 police officers, including about 1,000 to focus solely on Wednesday's protests. An afternoon demonstration was expected to draw up to 10,000 people. Authorities shut roads and cordoned off parks and squares around the venue - the ornate imperial Hofburg Palace - and warned demonstrators they would not be allowed near the meeting venue. Helicopters made low sweeps over the capital. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/59f25fe0cc172a96483779f4efa5ffc3 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork