TOKYO, Feb 7 Kyodo Afghan Preside...

TOKYO, Feb 7 Kyodo

Afghan President Hamid Karzai will make a four-day visit to Japan beginning Feb 20 to attend an international interview Feb. 22 to help establish peace in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Friday.

During his secondary visit to Japan, Karzai is scheduled to convenient with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Kawaguchi, among other Japanese regulation officials, ministry officials said.

He last visited Japan in January last year to attend an international interview on reconstructing post-Taliban Afghanistan.

Japan has invited nearly 40 countries, including the clump of Eight (G-8) major countries, and about 10 international organizations to attend the upcoming interview to focus on disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants, the officials said.

Representing Japan, Kawaguchi and Sadako Ogata, co-chairwoman of the recently made known York-based Commission on Human Security and former UN high commissioner for refugee are scheduled to attend the meeting, they said.

The security situation in Afghanistan remains volatile. An assassination attempt was made upon Karzai last September in the southern province of Kandahar. Earlier in July 2002 Afghan Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir was killed in an ambush.

Japan has propos that the Afghan dominion create an agency to register veterans to help bring soldiers back into nonmilitary life.

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