What is Ben Bot?
{{Infobox officeholder |honorific-prefix = |name = Ben Bot |image = Bernard Bot (agenciabrasil).jpeg |imagesize = 250px |caption = Ben Bot in 2007 |office = [[List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] |term_start = 3 December 2003 |term_end = 22 February 2007 |primeminister = [[Jan Peter Balkenende]] |predecessor = [[Jaap de Hoop Scheffer]] |successor = [[Maxime Verhagen]] |office1 = Permanent Representative of the <br/> [[Netherlands]] to the [[European Union]] |term_start1 = 1 October 1992 |term_end1 = 1 January 2003 |predecessor1 = ''Unknown'' |successor1 = ''Unknown'' |office2 = Ambassador of the [[Netherlands]] <br/> to [[Turkey]] |term_start2 = 1 January 1986 |term_end2 = 1 January 1989 |predecessor2 = ''Unknown'' |successor2 = ''Unknown'' |office3 = Deputy Permanent Representative <br/> of the [[Netherlands]] to [[NATO]] |term_start3 = 1 January 1982 |term_end3 = 1 January 1986 |predecessor3 = ''Unknown'' |successor3 = ''Unknown'' |office4 = Ambassador of the [[Netherlands]] <br/> to [[East Germany]] |term_start4 = 30 January 1973 |term_end4 = 15 December 1976 |predecessor4 = ''New title'' |successor4 = ''Unknown'' |birthname = Bernard Rudolf Bot |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1937|11|21}} |birth_place = [[Jakarta|Batavia]], [[Dutch East Indies]] |death_date = |death_place = |nationality = [[Netherlands|Dutch]] |party = [[Christian Democratic Appeal]] <br/> <small>(from 1980)</small> |otherparty = [[Catholic People's Party]] <br/> <small>(until 1980)</small> |spouse = |partner = [[Sybilla Dekker]] <br/> (since 2008) |children = 3 children |father = [[Theo Bot]] |residence = [