Iranian President meets Lula da Silva; news conference

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(23 Nov 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of presidential palace
2. Iranian flag
3. Brazilian flag
4. Close up of poster reading (Portuguese) "No to Ahmadinejad"
5. Various of protest against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
6. Ahmadinejad arriving and greeting Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, both shake hands
7. Mid of photographer
8. Both leaders and delegations going upstairs
9. Wide of news conference room
10. Various of Iranian senior officials signing agreements
11. Wide of Ahmadinejad and Lula da Silva receiving the signed agreements
12. Mid of flags
13. Ahmadinejad walking towards podium
14. Cutaway Brazilian officials
15. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran President:
"We must look to put and end to the humiliation and military aggressions that are being perpetrated (does not specify which ones) and ensure that both countries search for a world free of weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons. Brazil supports Iran's rights to enjoy the benefits of fuel and technology."
16. Cutaway of delegates
17. Ahmadinejad returning to his seat
STORYLINE
The world must engage, not isolate Iran in the push for Middle East peace and Iranian leaders should negotiate with Western nations for a "just and balanced" solution to concerns over its nuclear programme, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday.
Silva's comments followed a three-hour private meeting with his increasingly alienated Iranian counterpart, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the first Iranian leader to visit Brazil since pro-US Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi toured Brazil in 1965.
But Ahmadinejad made no promises and defiantly said Iran would try to improve its uranium-enrichment technology if it could not buy enriched uranium abroad.
The two leaders didn't say whether they discussed Iranian war games that started a day earlier, driving oil prices higher, or the case of three American hikers who were detained in Iran after they crossed an unmarked border while hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan in July.
The US State Department had said it hoped Brazil would broach the subject.
Ahmadinejad's remarks on uranium enrichment came less than a week after Iran indicated it would not export its enriched uranium for further processing, effectively rejecting the latest plan brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency and aimed at delaying Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon.
Under the IAEA plan, Iran would have exported its uranium for enrichment in Russia and France where it would be converted into fuel rods, which would be returned to Iran about a year later.
The rods can power reactors but cannot be readily turned into weapons-grade material.
While Silva said on his weekly radio show that there was good reason not to isolate Iran, he also suggested, but did not insist, that Ahmadinejad could work harder to negotiate the stalemate over the nation's nuclear programme.
For Ahmadinejad, the visit to Brazil could provide some measure of political legitimacy for his nation as it engages in large-scale war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack and refuses to back down from developing a nuclear programme. And for Brazil, it helps boost the nation's growing political clout.
"We must look to put and end to the humiliation and military aggressions that are being perpetrated, and ensure that both countries search for a world free of weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons," Ahmadinejad said, without giving details.
He added that Brazil that supported Iran's rights "to enjoy the benefits of fuel and technology."

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