Announcement of ex-king's delegation for Germany talks
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(22 Nov 2001) 1. Night
(22 Nov 2001)
1. Night shot exterior of Hotel Colony
2. Grandson and advisor of former Afghan king Zaher Shah, Mostapha Zaher entering the Hotel
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mostapha Zaher, advisor to former Afghan king
"We finalized the list, the UN has only invited eight people, but the list I am going to read now it doesn't mean that they are all going to be as a delegation as eight people in the conference room. They are also coming in the capacity of office staff and advisors of his majesty the former king."
4. Cutaway of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mostapha Zaher, advisor to former Afghan king
"So we have Hedayat Amin Arsala, he was former minister of foreign affairs and adviser to the former king, we will have Mrs Rona Mansuri, daughter of the former prime minister Mohammed Yusuf, who was responsible very much for writing the 1964 constitution and she is right now involved in women's affairs, we have Sima Wali who is a very articulate member of the Afghan community in the United States and has been fighting for womens rights for the last twenty years or so and especially in the last five years. We have Dr. Zalmai Rassoul, who is the director of the office of his majesty the former king, we have Abdul Sattar Sirat, former justice minister who was chief of the negotiations for the king when the northern alliance when met him in Rome, he will also be the chief negotiator this time around. We will have Azizullah Wasifi, former agriculture minister and president of the loya Jirja (parliament) in 1977. We will have Hamid Karzai who is a tribal Khan and who is right now engaged in a peaceful mission in Kandahar trying to rally support for the concept of the loya Jirja in Afghanistan with the Pashtun tribes. We have Dr. Amin Farhang, who is professor of economics, who lives in Germany and is member of the executive committee. Prof. Qasemm Fazli who is a professor of international law who lives just outside Paris in France, he will be part of the delegation. Then you have Mohammad Sadeq Eliaqi, one of our Hazara brothers who lives in Uzbekistan right now, he is from the Shia group. We thought that the group should be balanced women, minorities and so on. Then of course Fazal Khaliq, who will be an advisor to the delegation and myself I will be part of that delegation. We will be leaving here on Saturday and some other people will be leaving directly from Uzbekistan and Canada to reach there. Mr. Karzai from inside Afghanistan."
6. Mostapha greetings friends
STORYLINE:
Afghanistan's exiled former monarch is sending two women and six others reflecting the country's varied ethnic makeup to power-sharing talks in Germany, the king's grandson said on Thursday.
Mostapha Zaher, whose grandfather King Mohammad Zaher Shah was ousted from Kabul in a 1973 palace coup, said the former monarch and his entourage are optimistic about the talks, which Zaher said would likely last a few days.
The grandson, who said he would depart for Germany on Saturday from Rome, where the former king has been living in exile, is part of the delegation.
In 1964, the king introduced a constitution giving women the right to vote, work and go to school, and his grandson said the choice of two women delegates was aimed at promoting concerns of women, who, under the just-ousted Taliban regime, were forbidden to hold jobs, walk in streets unaccompanied by men or attend school.
The two women are Rona Yusuf Mansuri, who lives in Germany, and the US-based Sima Wali, both prominent in Afghan women's issues.
The talks are aimed at forming a broad-based multiethnic government to replace the Taliban regime.
"symbolic."
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1. Night shot exterior of Hotel Colony
2. Grandson and advisor of former Afghan king Zaher Shah, Mostapha Zaher entering the Hotel
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Mostapha Zaher, advisor to former Afghan king
"We finalized the list, the UN has only invited eight people, but the list I am going to read now it doesn't mean that they are all going to be as a delegation as eight people in the conference room. They are also coming in the capacity of office staff and advisors of his majesty the former king."
4. Cutaway of journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mostapha Zaher, advisor to former Afghan king
"So we have Hedayat Amin Arsala, he was former minister of foreign affairs and adviser to the former king, we will have Mrs Rona Mansuri, daughter of the former prime minister Mohammed Yusuf, who was responsible very much for writing the 1964 constitution and she is right now involved in women's affairs, we have Sima Wali who is a very articulate member of the Afghan community in the United States and has been fighting for womens rights for the last twenty years or so and especially in the last five years. We have Dr. Zalmai Rassoul, who is the director of the office of his majesty the former king, we have Abdul Sattar Sirat, former justice minister who was chief of the negotiations for the king when the northern alliance when met him in Rome, he will also be the chief negotiator this time around. We will have Azizullah Wasifi, former agriculture minister and president of the loya Jirja (parliament) in 1977. We will have Hamid Karzai who is a tribal Khan and who is right now engaged in a peaceful mission in Kandahar trying to rally support for the concept of the loya Jirja in Afghanistan with the Pashtun tribes. We have Dr. Amin Farhang, who is professor of economics, who lives in Germany and is member of the executive committee. Prof. Qasemm Fazli who is a professor of international law who lives just outside Paris in France, he will be part of the delegation. Then you have Mohammad Sadeq Eliaqi, one of our Hazara brothers who lives in Uzbekistan right now, he is from the Shia group. We thought that the group should be balanced women, minorities and so on. Then of course Fazal Khaliq, who will be an advisor to the delegation and myself I will be part of that delegation. We will be leaving here on Saturday and some other people will be leaving directly from Uzbekistan and Canada to reach there. Mr. Karzai from inside Afghanistan."
6. Mostapha greetings friends
STORYLINE:
Afghanistan's exiled former monarch is sending two women and six others reflecting the country's varied ethnic makeup to power-sharing talks in Germany, the king's grandson said on Thursday.
Mostapha Zaher, whose grandfather King Mohammad Zaher Shah was ousted from Kabul in a 1973 palace coup, said the former monarch and his entourage are optimistic about the talks, which Zaher said would likely last a few days.
The grandson, who said he would depart for Germany on Saturday from Rome, where the former king has been living in exile, is part of the delegation.
In 1964, the king introduced a constitution giving women the right to vote, work and go to school, and his grandson said the choice of two women delegates was aimed at promoting concerns of women, who, under the just-ousted Taliban regime, were forbidden to hold jobs, walk in streets unaccompanied by men or attend school.
The two women are Rona Yusuf Mansuri, who lives in Germany, and the US-based Sima Wali, both prominent in Afghan women's issues.
The talks are aimed at forming a broad-based multiethnic government to replace the Taliban regime.
"symbolic."
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