Japan to pay Afghan police salaries: envoys

WASHINGTON, United States - Sadako Ogata (R), Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's special envoy to support Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during a news conference in Washington on March 9. Ogata and Motohide Yoshikawa (L), the Japanese ambassador to Spain who doubles as the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said they met U.S. Special Representative Richard Holbrooke and told him that Japan will pay half a year's salary for about 80,000 police officers in Afghanistan, worth $124 million, to help reconstruct the war-ravaged country.

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