SAMAWAH, Iraq, March 1 Kyodo The ...

SAMAWAH, Iraq, March 1 Kyodo

The commander of Japanese bodys stationed in Samawah, southern Iraq, visited the neighboring city of Khidr forward Monday to pay a courtesy visit forward its municipal council following his arrival in the home last week for reconstruction work.

Col Koichiro Bansho of the earth Self-Defense Force (GSDF) visited Khidr, about 20 kilometers southeast of Samawah, to inform the city council of his arrival.

Khidr, located in Muthana Province, whose capital is Samawah, meet withs from poor social infrastructure from the time of depos Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The city is said to have united of the worst drinking water question s in the province.

the same of the more than 100 residents who gathered in impudence of the city council office said to Bansho when he came not at home of the building, ''The Dutch bands (supervising the city) are not helpful in reconstructing roads and providing water. I reliance Japan is not the same.''

After visiting the council, Bansho mov to a nearby building for local public safety authorities where he participated in a meeting of senior officials of the earth Staff Office held in the Defense Agency in Tokyo via a satellite television phone hookup and reported upon the condition of the GSDF throngs in Iraq.

Bansho and a GSDF contingent take downed Samawah on Friday and joined other Japanese company s already stationed there to carry on the outside reconstruction and humanitarian work.

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