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Japan's aid for elections

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE, OCT. 13. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Nobutaka Machimura, today announced that his country would extend aid amounting to the tune of $40 millions towards the `successful' conduct of elections in Iraq by the end of January next year.

Pledging this, while welcoming the participants at a donors' conference in Tokyo, Mr. Machimura said the amount would form part of Japan's overall contribution to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI).

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