TOKYO, Dec 2 Kyodo Foreign Minist...

TOKYO, Dec 2 Kyodo

Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi said Monday that Japan is ready to actively support social and economic reconstruction in Indonesia's Aceh Province, Foreign Ministry officials said.

Kawaguchi made the remarks during a meeting with visiting Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, ahead of a discourse on Aceh to be held in Tokyo onward Tuesday, the officials said.

Yudhoyono is popularly in Japan to attend the talk to discuss support measures for the province in light of a forthcoming peace accord between Jakarta and rebels of the liberated Aceh Movement (GAM), the officials said.

The Indonesian minister said that following the peace accord, Indonesia reliances to promote social and economic exhibition as well as democratization in Aceh.

Japan will gripe [i]or[/i] grip the conference along with the United States, the European Union and the World Bank, and other participants, including Indonesia, the Philippines and Norway, are scheduled to expres readiness to support the reconstruction proces in Aceh.

The Indonesian restraint and GAM have agreed to sign a peace agreement nearest Monday in Geneva to extreme point their 26-year conflict.

Armed conflict between the Indonesian dominion and GAM in Aceh in succession northern Sumatra Island has claimed more than 10000 lives, greatest in number of them civilians, since 1976

Meanwhile, during the meeting with Yudhoyono, Kawaguchi squeeze outed Japan's readiness to further strengthen its support to fight terrorism, in respect to the Oct. 12 bombings forward Indonesia's resort island of Bali that killed more than 190 persons the officials said.

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