Rice in north, meets Barzani, news briefing, adds more comment

(6 Oct 2006) SHOTLIST
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
1. Wide of plane carrying U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landing
2. Wide of airport building
3. Aircraft taxing
4. Iraqi officials waiting
5. US officials on runway
6. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice getting out of car
7. Rice along to meet officials
8. Cutaway of airport sign
9. Rice walking into terminal building with Iraqi officials
10. Convoy leaves airport
11. Rice greeting Barzani and officials
12. Rice and Barzani into building
13. Rice and Barzani walking in for news conference
14. Cutaway of cameras
15. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Massoud Barzani, Kurdish Regional President:
"Kurds like any other nation have the right to self determination. Currently Kurdistan has adopted a federal system within the framework of a federal a democratic Iraq."
16. Cutaway Cameraman
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State:
"We have been friends with the Kurdish people for a very long time and in fact, prior to liberation, well prior to liberation we helped to provide stability and protection to the Kurdish people. We are now able to have a situation in which we have a democratic Iraq not just a democratic Kurdish region. There are guarantees in the constitution of that unified Iraq. The people understand the importance of autonomy here in the Kurdish regions and they understand the special history of Kurdistan and the process that is going on now in Baghdad which is one that within the framework of a united Iraq protect and defend the rights of all people."
18. Rice and Bazani at the podium
19. Rice and Barzani walking out after news conference.
STORYLINE:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited the autonomous and oil-rich Kurdish north of Iraq on Friday, less than two weeks after the regional government threatened to break away from Iraq in a dispute over oil.
Rice, on a two-day trip to Iraq, travelled to the mountain retreat of the region's powerful president, Massoud Barzani.
After a session with their staff, followed by a lengthy one-on-one meeting at the Kurdish government offices in Irbil, Rice and Barzani spoke to reporters.
The Kurdish leader said they both shared some similar views, while Rice said stability in the capital Baghdad would help the Kurdish people in the north of the country.
Bazani said that Kurds have the right to self-determination like any other nation.
When asked about the future distribution of oil wealth, Barzani did not repeat recent assertions that Kurdistan alone should control new contracts and business arrangements for oil pumped in the region.
However he gave no endorsement of proposed national legislation on dividing up income from oil.
Rice also highlighted Americas relationship with the Kurdish nation and highlighted its position within a unified Iraq.
Her visit is meant to show U.S. support for the country's fragile central government, under assault by sectarian violence and growing calls for autonomy among Iraq's regions.
Fears of Kurdish secession rose in recent weeks, especially when Barzani briefly banned the display of the Iraqi flag in government buildings.
The U.S. and other international backers want quick action on a law that would streamline the complicated oil sector, attract foreign investment and provide for equitable distribution of oil profits across Iraq.
Oil is still pumping at pre-war levels more than three years after the invasion that toppled the former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein.
However oil resources are now governed by vague terms in the national constitution.
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