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The Japan Times: Feb. 24, 2004

Japan's Iraq role wins praise of Annan

By REIJI YOSHIDA
Staff writer

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday won a desperately needed endorsement from U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for Japan's engagement in postwar aid missions in Iraq.

Annan, in Tokyo for a five-day visit, held a one-hour meeting with Koizumi at the Prime Minister's Office.

An official said Annan praised Japan's role in postwar reconstruction efforts, saying Japan is doing "the right work."

Koizumi and Annan agreed the United Nations should play an active key role in rebuilding Iraq, sidelining questions over the legitimacy of the United States-led war on the country and Japan's full support for it.

Briefly addressing reporters together after their meeting, Koizumi said, "We have shared a common vision that the U.N.'s role will be extremely important in building a government by Iraqi people and of Iraq people."

Annan said, "I assured the prime minister that the U.N. has always been ready to play through."

The U.S. decision to wage war on Iraq deeply divided U.N. member countries and temporarily paralyzed the functions of the U.N.

Japan sided with the U.S. to show its commitment to their bilateral military alliance.

Opposition lawmakers have criticized the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces units to Iraq, saying the government is blindly supporting the U.S.-led occupation.

During Monday's meeting, Annan and Koizumi agreed that the international community should work together, according to a Foreign Ministry official who briefed the media about the meeting.

Koizumi told Annan that Japan attaches great importance to U.N.-based international cooperation, and that the SDF has been dispatched for humanitarian aid missions, the official said.

Speaking to reporters, the U.N. chief said he briefed Koizumi about a key report of a U.N. fact-finding mission that will be released Tuesday.

The report recommends that the power of governance be transferred to the Iraqi people by June 30, as initially scheduled, and that elections be organized "in the not-too-distant future," Annan said.

Japanese government officials said that Annan also told Koizumi during the meeting that the elections should be held between the end of this year and early next year.

The U.N. will propose various options for the form of the new government, the officials quoted Annan as saying.



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国連事務総長が国会で演説して、日本の自衛隊海外派兵の正当性を認めた。

やっぱり「何度やっても正義は勝ち、邪悪な勢力は負ける。」

ということか。


（追伸）重複するけど。

私は、意見というよりも、情報がどれほど多様にあるか、ネットの情報力がどれほど多様であるかを探求しているところがあります。

したがって、同じ内容ではありますが、情報機関によってどのようにちがうか、広い世界の国々によってどのように報道され方が違うかを探っているところがあります。

掲示板は、新聞の世論欄ではありません。

新聞の世論欄は、一方通行のダサいものです。

ネットの掲示板は、まだまだ可能性が極められていない新しい世界です。

新しい世界なのですから、何よりもそのグローバルさを楽しむのも、一つのネットの魅力なのではないでしょうか？

外国の報道を引用したり、日本の多数の報道のあり方を検証したり、楽しみ方はいろいろです。

真面目な議論も大切ですが、同じように新しいネットの可能性も追求しようではありませんか。

したがって重複した内容のものを多数引用することをお許しください。