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Afghanistan: Karzai chairs first cabinet meeting + pro-Karzai rally

(30 Dec 2001) 1. Wide as car pulls up outside, zoom in to Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Foreign Minister, getting out 2. Close up of window with bullet holes in it 3. Truck filled with armed soldiers arrives and soldiers disembark 4. Mohammad Yunis Qanuni, Home Minister, gets out and walks inside 5. Close up of gun, pan up to men greeting each other 6. Various of tribal leaders leave building 7. Wide of cabinet meeting 8. Interim Afghan Prime Minister Hamid Karzai sitting at head of table 9. Various of Karzai and ministers at meeting 10. Dr Abdullah Abdullah and another minister 11. Various of demonstration of Afghan intellectuals marching through the streets of Kabul with banners 12. Group of women in burqas walking along in rally 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Khalid, engineer and supporter "We are going to support the peace process of the United Nations. These intellectual persons are going to demonstrate and go to the main office of the United Nations special mission to Afghanistan. And these people are going to fully support the peace mission of the United Nations." 14. Demonstrators gathering outside UN mission 15. UN flag, pull out to supporters gathered 16. UN envoy Ahmed Fawzi arriving 17. Various of meeting 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Fawzi, spokesman for the United Nations special envoy "The UN and all its agencies will be here for a very long time to help you in the process of peace and reconciliation and reconstruction and the whole world is supporting you in this very important phase." 19. Wide of meeting STORYLINE: Ministers of Afghanistan's new cabinet held their first meeting on Sunday, their top priority to provide security for the reconstruction of a war-shattered nation and help for millions of its starving displaced people. Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai chaired the gathering of the new administration, a day after it was sworn in. Saturday's swearing-in of Karzai was welcomed worldwide as a first step toward peace in a country ravaged by 23 years of war, and overrun by Osama bin Laden's international terrorist network. Karzai said history would judge how his interim government met the challenge of rebuilding a nation without an infrastructure to speak of, a bankrupt economy and deeply divided by ethnic and tribal loyalties. He vowed to establish peace and security, disarm the warlords and return law to Afghanistan. Though some local commanders handed over small caches of weapons to signal their support of the interim government, several cabinet ministers arrived on Sunday with their own armed soldiers. Others were on the streets of Kabul accompanied by block-long convoys packed with men cradling automatic rifles and rocket launchers. Herat governor Ismail Khan came with a 30-member private army. Also on Sunday, women clutched pale blue tent-like burqas against the cold as they marched in the dusty, rocket-rutted streets of the capital, chanting slogans of hope and peace. It was an unusual show of political involvement by women alongside men under the more liberal government that replaced the repressive five-year Taliban regime. Dozens of demonstrators, men and women mostly from Kabul's small professional class, echoed the war-weary theme as they marched down the street. Car horns blared as drivers swerved to avoid hitting them. It was a telling sign that they marched toward the United Nations building rather than the presidential palace where the new cabinet met. 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...