Staff writer
Japan will pay the full cost of a $370,000 project proposed by the United Nations Drug Control Program aimed at curbing the rise in the use of illegal stimulant drugs -- particularly among the young -- in Southeast Asia, government officials said Wednesday.
The decision was made in response to a UNDCP request and will be announced at a special session of the U.N. General Assembly on narcotics scheduled to be held June 8-10 in New York, the officials said, asking not to be named. The three-day session is to be attended by heads of state or government from industrialized and developing countries, including U.S. President Bill Clinton, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Japanese delegation will include State Foreign Secretary Masahiko Komura and Yuko Sekiguchi, director general of the National Police Agency, the officials said.