WRAP NATO summit discusses future of troop deployment in Afghanistan; presser
(3 Apr 2008) 1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, NATO Sec Gen Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, UN Sec Gen Ban Ki Moon 2. Mid shot of President Karzai, NATO Sec-Gen Scheffer, UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki Moon 3. Wide pan across journalists 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghan President: "The document issued in the name of ISAF's strategic vision for Afghanistan is one that encompasses all aspects of security, reconstruction, improved governance, rule of law, engagement of neighbours, cooperation with neighbours. These are areas that definitely, if addressed fully, will bring about the kind of safety and security that Afghan people are seeking." 5. Cutaway Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General 6. Cutaway journalist 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General: "Extra contribution by the French for Afghanistan, and those French forces will go east as you know, first of all frees up, if that is correct English, American forces presently serving in the east of Afghanistan for the south. And president Bush reacted and announced and (Canada) Prime Minister Harper of course was happy with that." 8. Wide of podium with Afghan President Karzai, NATO Sec Gen Scheffer, UN Sec Gen Ban Ki Moon 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki moon, UN Secretary General: "We sought two outcomes: one to agree on a comprehensive strategy for ISAF as well as for NATO troop commitment to re-dynamise the partnership between the Afghan government and the international community in that regard with this troop commitment I emphasised when I met the leaders that the cost of disengagement would be far greater that the cost of engagement." 10. Wide of speakers shaking hands 11. Wide of conference room, journalists departing 12. Wide of NATO Afghanistan opening session 13. Arrival of Afghan President Hamid Karzai 14. US president George W Bush speaking to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Karzai 15. Mid of Romanian President Traian Basescu walking past camera 16. Mid of Bush and EU High Representative Javier Solana 17. Wide nation members' flags, pan wide of opening session 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General: "Our collective presence here today signals that we are committed to Afghanistan for the long term and that this is a comprehensive effort: civilian and military and more and more Afghanistan led." 19. Cutaway Karzai listening 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General "We thus have every reason to take pride in the progress achieved to date, and here in Bucharest we will have to set out how we will build on that success and bring forward a day when Afghanistan will stand on its own feet as a safe, secure and prospering nation." 21. Wide of the session STORYLINE: NATO's summit in Bucharest focused on Afghanistan on Thursday where the alliance's force is about 43,000-strong, and where commanders are pleading for more troops in the south, the area Taliban insurgents are wreaking the most havoc. However a French offer of troops for eastern Afghanistan made at the summit will free up U.S. forces to move south to Kandahar province, the scene of some of the heaviest fighting against Taliban insurgents. "Those French forces will go east as you know, first of all frees up, if that is correct English, American forces presently serving in the east of Afghanistan for the south," the alliance's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said. That averts a crisis that had loomed with Canada's threat to pull out its 2,500 beleaguered soldiers in Kandahar unless they got 1,000 reinforcements from another ally. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
