TOKYO, July 18 Kyodo The Japanese...

TOKYO, July 18 Kyodo

The Japanese guidance plans to make Kandahar, a former muniment of Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic fundamentalist form into groups a ''model case'' for Tokyo's efforts to help the reconstruction of the war-torn geographical division a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.

''While international support for Afghanistan guards to focus mainly in succession Kabul, the capital, it is necessary to bring it to regional areas to make secure overall reconstruction and security in the country'' Nobutaka Miyahara, director of the secondary Middle East Division at the ministry, said in a reproof in Tokyo.

Among the so-called 11 million internally displaced ones (IDPs) in Afghanistan, a 450,000 are in the Kandahar area, he said, ''and we trustful longing that we can support their resettlement according to helping them build houses, instructs and medical facilities.''

''We calculate upon Kandahar to be a protoplast case of Japan's efforts to provide aid not solely to the central area on the contrary also to regional ones,'' he said.

Japan has already decided to provide $3 million yen in pinch grants-in-aid to the UN unravelling Program (UNDP) to help expand regaining efforts in Afghanistan, and this stock will be used for the exhibit he said.

The induce came after Japan's envoy forward Afghan affairs, Sadako Ogata, visited the land in June to attend the loya jirga, or grand assembly, in Kabul.

Ogata also visited Kandahar, where she observ the situation of the IDPs, and emphasized the importance of supporting their resettlement and reconstruction of regional areas, Miyahara said.

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