AP focus on Paris proposal to rejoin NATO's military command

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SHOTLIST Universal Newsreel FILE: France - 1967 1. Various of newsreel showing the closing of US Military Command headquarters in France ++please note first shot is very short++ AP Television Paris, France - 17 February 2009 2. Wide exterior of French National Assembly 3. Pan of journalists and members of parliament inside the National Assembly 4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Elisabeth Guigou, Socialist member of parliament: "On the contrary we will weaken (European defence), because we will give additional military means to NATO, military means which would have been welcomed for European defence, outside the Atlantic Alliance. For me that's the main problem." 5. Wide of Guigou being interviewed 6. SOUNDBITE: (French) Elisabeth Guigou, Socialist member of parliament: "The possibilities of enlargement to include Ukraine and Georgia without wondering at all about the consequences to relations with Russia, are a big problem, because these are two countries, which unlike Central and Eastern European countries, were totally part of the Soviet Union. It is an important difference compared to Poland, Hungary or others. All these issues are completely swept under the carpet and I think that regarding relations with Russia, and the existence of the European defence there are important topics that we should obviously talk about during a parliamentary debate here, followed by a vote." HRTV Zagreb - No access Croatia Split, Croatia - 14 June 1995 7. French soldiers landing to join United Nations in Bosnia 8. Truck being unloaded 9. Tank being unloaded 10. Soldiers on ground after landing 11. Truck waiting to be unloaded from ship 12. Officers on deck AP Television Paris, France - 17 February 2009 13. Jacques Myard, UMP ruling party member of parliament being interviewed by journalists inside the National Assembly 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jacques Myard, UMP ruling party member of parliament: "From a military point of view, there is no need to join because when you say, when they say that our influence will be greater I say no: it won't be greater, because let's say the software of NATO is that NATO is an American machine and will be the same way. So if we are in we won't be able let's say to change the nature of NATO as such. If you want to change that then we should discuss it before rejoining NATO integration committees." 15. Media and MPs inside the National Assembly. 16. SOUNDBITE: (French) Patrick Ollier, UMP ruling party member of parliament: "We are paying our way, we have soldiers in NATO, in reality we are not reintegrating back into NATO, we have never left it. We are coming back in to the structure of command, which is to say that today we have all the disadvantages, not the advantages. We are in Afghanistan with NATO, we were in Kosovo with NATO. Today it seems totally natural that we should have a place in directing NATO." Agency Pool Rajlovac Barracks, near Sarajevo - 7 April 1998 17. Then French President Jacques Chirac shakes hands with soldier 18. French soldiers 19. Chirac looking at map 20. Various of Chirac talking to soldier AP Television Paris, France - 17 February 2009 21. Dominique David, executive director at the think-tank IFRI (French Institute for International Relations), entering his office 22. SOUNDBITE: (French) Dominique David, executive director at the think-tank IFRI (French Institute for International Relations): 23. Tilt down from a World War I poster to David talking AP Television Surobi district, east of Kabul, Afghanistan - 19 August 2008 24. Various of French troops in armoured vehicles 25. Various of French soldiers carrying out road checks STORYLINE: Yet it would change little within the alliance itself, at least in military terms. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3e8d948997804c9463ed41124d150681 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork