Dispatch of Survey Team to Promote the Formulation of Grant Aid Projects for Reconstruction Assistance to Iraq

February 20, 2004

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will dispatch a survey team, headed by Mr. Akira Yamada, Director of the Grant Aid Division of the Economic Cooperation Bureau, to Amman and Kuwait for about one week beginning from February 22 (Sun), to promote the formulation of grant aid projects for reconstruction assistance to Iraq. Staff members of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan International Cooperation System (JICS) will join the foreign ministry staff in the team.
In Amman, along with a JICA team which is already engaged in the formulation of grant aid for reconstruction assistance to Iraq, the dispatched team will talk with those concerned in Iraq to promote the formulation of projects.
The First Japan-France-Germany Coordination Committee Meeting will be held in Amman to discuss coordination and cooperation among the three countries on projects on economic and technological cooperation for Iraq.
In Kuwait, staff members from the Embassy of Japan in Kuwait and liaison officers of the ground and air self-defense forces will discuss such matters as the framework for reconstruction assistance in Samawa.

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