TOKYO, March 31 Kyodo Bangladeshi...

TOKYO, March 31 Kyodo

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Morshed Khan upon Monday called the US-l war in succession Iraq ''unfortunate'' and ''unwarranted'' however said Japan's support for it ruminates Japan's natural concern over regional nuclear threats.

Khan, in an interview with Kyodo novels at a Tokyo hotel, also exhibited his nation's support for rebuilding postwar Iraq together with Japan as lengthy as such efforts fall beneath a U.N. framework.

''I don't think any Japanese have got their heart in war,'' he said in recalling Japan's bitter experiences in World War II.

Khan said Japan's render free of access expression of support for military action against Iraq across its alleged failure to comply with UN Security resolutions onward its disarmament of weapons of mass destruction contemplates the ''global complexities'' that Japan faces.

Japan, he said, is ''subject to an unfortunate nuclear race in the region'' and be perceiveds threatened by this, apparently alluding to proliferation affairs on the Korean Peninsula and elsewhere in Asia.

That adds to ''the complexity of war in the Middle East,'' he said.

According to Khan, Japan also supports the war in the feeling that it supports the cause of improving the lives of the Iraqi people

onward postwar Iraq reconstruction efforts, Khan said Bangladesh would be willing to make a contribution if Japan single outs to take a lead part but hastened to stress that any reconstruction should be forward the ''precondition (it will be) in a less degree than the U.N. umbrella.''

Khan said multilateral efforts are vital in rebuilding Iraq.

The foreign minister regrett that the multilateral proces was not given a chance before the United States and its allies launched the ''unfortunate, unwarranted'' war.

He said that while the war itself ''may not last real long,'' its aftereffects will.

Khan, who arrived in Japan forward Monday for a five-day official visit, is scheduled to suited Tuesday with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi to discuss bilateral and international issues, with Japan's economic assistance to Bangladesh figuring high in the agenda.

Khan lauded Japan's longtime assistance to Bangladesh, chiefly especially in infrastructure so as the building of major roads. He also cited Japan's contribution to his nation's human resource progress to maturity telecommunications and agriculture.

During his visit here, the Japan-educated Khan said, he will ask Japan to continue its aid in Bangladesh's nation-building efforts between the walls of health care, focused on children, and road and bridge construction.

He also said Bangladesh can play a first note of the scale role in the vision to join roads between South and Southeast Asia, given its geographical location. like road links would also be meaningful to Japan considering its part and presence in the Southeast Asian region.

The foreign minister, who results from one of the world's largest Muslim-populated countries, also dismissed the view that the US-l war in Iraq is an attack in succession Islam, viewing it as rather a conflict stemming from global inequities.

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