TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo Japan will i...

TOKYO, Aug. 8 Kyodo

Japan will impel two persons to Afghanistan to help the war-torn country's efforts to destroy antipersonnel land mines, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.

The sum of two units -- Takuto Kubo, 27, who formerly worked for the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo and Takakiyo Izumi, 41 of the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention -- will be forward loan to the UN Mine Action Center for Afghanistan, the ministry said.

Kubo and Izumi will liaise with aid donor countries, escort public relations activities and formulate shoot forwards for land mine removal, the ministry said.

They will be the first Japanese staff at the UN center

At an Afghan reconstruction discourse in Tokyo in January, Tokyo pledg to provide $1922 million to international organizations for removal of land mines in Afghanistan.

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