(7 May 2009)
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1. Afghan President Hamid Karzai getting out of car, greeting officials, entering White House
2. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arriving at White House
3. Wide of US President Barack Obama sitting at table with Karzai and Zardari, UPSOUND (English), Barack Obama, United States President:
"Thank you everybody, we're going to be making formal remarks over there but we just wanted to say that we have had an extraordinarily productive day and what is represented around the table is not just three presidents but rather it's ministers and agency heads at every level and that reflects the kind of concrete cooperation and detail that is going to ultimately make a difference in improving opportunity and democracy and stability in Pakistan and in Afghanistan."
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4. Obama, Karzai and Zardari walking out to microphone in Grand Foyer
5. Wide side shot of Obama at podium, next to Karzai and Zardari
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, United States President:
"We meet today as three sovereign nations joined by a common goal: to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaida and its extremist allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their ability to operate in either country in the future. And to achieve that goal, we must deny them the space to threaten the Pakistani, Afghan, or American people."
7. Wide side shot of Obama speaking
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, United States President:
"I'm pleased that these two men - elected leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan - fully appreciate the seriousness of the threat that we face, and have reaffirmed their commitment to confronting it. And I'm pleased that we have advanced unprecedented cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan on a bilateral basis, and among Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States, which will benefit all of our people."
9. Wide of journalists, pan to Obama speaking
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, United States President:
"I also made it clear that the United States will work with our Afghan and international partners to make every effort to avoid civilian casualties as we help the Afghan government combat our common enemy."
11. Cutaway of media
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, United States President:
"The United States has a stake in the future of these two countries. We have learned, time and again, that our security is shared. It is a lesson that we learned most painfully on 9/11, and it is a lesson that we will not forget. So we are here today in the midst of a great challenge but no matter what happens we will not be deterred. The aspirations of all our people for security, for opportunity and for justice are far more powerful than any enemy."
13. Obama, Karzai and Zardari walking away
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14. US National Security Advisor James Jones entering briefing room
15. Cutaway of reporters
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Jones, US National Security Advisor:
"The President started out his meeting with President Karzai by commenting with great sympathy on the tragedies that have happened out in Western Afghanistan and indicating that we regret the loss of life, particularly of innocent people, and that the investigations that are underway will be pursued aggressively with full intent to discover what in fact did happen, how it happened and how can we make sure that things like that do not happen again. And it was clear that President Karzai was moved by that, by the President's statement and he thanked the President for starting off the meeting with that expression of condolence."
17. Jones leaving
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