Tanaka says LDP's Suzuki wanted to bar NGOs from donor meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka (L) tells a House of Representatives Budget Committee session Jan. 24 that Muneo Suzuki, an influential member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, pressured the Foreign Ministry to bar two nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from a Tokyo donor conference on Afghan reconstruction held Jan. 21-22.

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