(4 Nov 2006)
1. Wide of Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot in meeting with Afghan president Hamid Karzai
2. Medium of Bot and Karzai
3. Medium of Bot
4. Medium of Karzai
5. Officials sitting
6. Cutaway of cameraman
7. Bot and Afghanistan's Foreign Minster Rangeen Dadfar Spanta walking to podiums for news conference
8. Cutaway of media
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Bot, Dutch Foreign Minister:
"The world community, including the Netherlands, is very serious in exerting pressure on Pakistan to see to it that the border is sealed off, that terrorists can no longer cross from Pakistan into Urozgan into the south of your country. Tomorrow, again, I will convey that message to the Pakistani authorities and I am sure that if every body does it and that if Pakistan realises that the world is looking at them then I am also sure that we can put a halt to it."
10. Cutaway of close-up of reporter writing
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Bot, Dutch Foreign Minister:
"You know that on the 28 of November we will have a summit in Riga, and the Netherlands will lets say raise this issue as one of the very important issues because we feel that more NATO members should commit themselves not only on paper or with modest sums of money, but that they should also commit themselves by sending more troops to sensitive and difficult areas as the British and the Dutch and the Canadians are doing so. This is an important issue I will raise it and I hope that we will get a positive response."
12. Cutaway of reporters
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard Bot, Dutch Foreign Minister:
"I must say that we have already so many troops deployed here that we see no reasons to deploy additional troops. I have made an appeal to the President to see to it that more Afghan troops join us because, as I said earlier, this is a joint enterprise. We have many troops, we do most of the work together with the Australians, with the Canadians and with the British troops, but we feel that extra efforts should be made by Afghan troops."
14. Cutaway of cameraman
15. Bot and Spanta shaking hands, leaving
STORYLINE:
Pakistan should seal its border to prevent terrorists from entering Afghanistan, Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said in Kabul on Saturday.
After meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bot said the world community should put pressure on Pakistan to stop terrorist elements from crossing the border into Afghanistan.
Speaking at a press conference in Kabul with his Afghan counterpart, Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, Bot said "the world community, including the Netherlands, is very serious in exerting pressure on Pakistan to see to it that the border is sealed off, that terrorists can no longer cross from Pakistan into Urozgan into the south of your country."
"Tomorrow, again, I will convey that message to the Pakistani authorities and I am sure that if every body does it and that if Pakistan realises that the world is looking at them then I am also sure that we can put a halt to it," he added.
He also said that it is time for NATO members to show their commitment and send more troops into dangerous areas in Afghanistan, referring to south where Dutch, Canadian, Australian and British troops are fighting Taliban insurgency.
"We feel that more NATO members should commit themselves not only on paper or with modest sums of money, but that they should also commit themselves by sending more troops to sensitive and difficult areas as the British and the Dutch and the Canadians are doing so. This is an important issue I will raise it and I hope that we will get a positive response," Bot said.

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