Amsterdam - Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen should convince NATO to appoint an independent inspector-general to supervise Afghanistan's reconstruction, Dutch legislator Femke Halsema said in the Dutch parliament on Tuesday.

If the North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not want to appoint such an official in Afghanistan, then the Netherlands should appoint an inspector-general itself, Halsema said.

The leader of the Greens Party was speaking following the recent report in the US daily The New York Times citing a draft US federal government document as saying the

Amsterdam - Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen on Tuesday called upon Muslim countries on to make sure the film An Interview with Mohammed, by Iranian-born Ehsan Jami, will not result in violence against Dutch nationals or Dutch companies.

Verhagen said he discussed the matter on Tuesday with ambassadors of Muslim countries in The Hague.

The foreign minister says he fears Muslim extremist groups might use the film as an excuse to commit violence against Dutch targets.