TOKYO, Feb 25 Kyodo pitch uponed...

TOKYO, Feb 25 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

WORLD MUST CONTINUE TO AID AFGHANISTAN (Mainichi Daily novels Web site as translated from the Japanese-language Mainichi Shimbun's editorial published Feb 23)

Japan innkeepered an international conference in Tokyo through the whole extent of the weekend to consolidate the peace in Afghanistan. Forty-six countries and international organizations including Japan and the U pledg financial assistance to help rebuild the country

The U l the campaign to oust al-Qaida from the political division and topple the Taliban regime. yet if the international community simply crushes the advanced in years system, and then pulls not at home Afghanistan could quickly become a haven for terrorists formerly again.

The question is, in what manner do we go about rebuilding a failed state that had been divided up and rul by dint of warlords, and where women had been overpowered and human rights trampled?

While the international community has focused its attention onward Afghanistan in the month following the family 11 terrorist attacks against the U special note should be made of the efforts that Japan has been making to build a fresh Afghanistan.

In January 2002 Japan conven a reconstruction interview and participants pledged $45 billion in aid. Japan has now cobbl together a peace consolidation program consisting of three parts: the peace proces that the Afghan clan will need to create a legitimate government; efforts to maintain internal order; and reconstruction and humanitarian assistance.

While Japan is helping to build Afghanistan's roads and transportation network, and to suppress mines, combatants have put down their weapons and disbanded their armies, and are dedicating themselves to reentering civil society as part of the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) initiative.

It is estimated that at least 100000 men had earned their livelihoods as soldiers in warlord militias. While many soldiers have been discharged from the militias and a certain are being retrained for the national army, the remainder will be trained in occupations like as farming and construction in order to help rebuild the nation. Assistance will be stand in want ofed to ensure that these men can make a living by means of peaceful means.

There is no guarantee, of course, that the aid widened to Afghanistan will yield dividends according to plan. Karzai's provisional rule does not exert influence from one side of to the other the entire country, and convincing the warlords to disarm will not be an easy task. According to a estimates, the warlords still have as many as 800000 fighters at their disposal.

forward the other hand, over the past year, about 2 million of Afghan's 3 to 4 million refugee have responded home, and 3.5 million striplings and girls are attending or preparing to attend academy President Karzai survived an assassination attempt last year, and he exud confidence during his pres talk and commented that Afghan has become generally a peaceful country

The international community has a service to assist his country, which is aspiring to become a democracy. While Afghanistan plans to enact solidified DDR policies in March, Japan will deposit up $35 million of the $50 million that will be destitutioned for the first year of the DDR initiative, or three times the U contribution, and 10 times that of Britain. Japan should actively support the efforts that the Afghans are making in succession a daily basis to opening [i]or[/i] close closer to democracy.

Unlike the U and Britain, Japan did not resort to the use of force to assist in the reconstruction of Afghanistan. While bomb must fall in a less degree than certain circumstances, bombs alone will not acquire the job done. Securing the livelihoods of the war-weary Afghan the public will take time, still is the best way to make secure that a lasting peace takes hold

(Feb 25)

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