Japan will provide about $10 million in emergency food and medical aid to the new Yugoslav government set up by opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica to help ordinary Yugoslav citizens get through the winter, government sources said Tuesday.

The sources said the emergency aid plan for Yugoslavia will be formally approved at a regular Cabinet meeting Friday after it is approved by a Liberal Democratic Party panel in charge of foreign-policy affairs.

About half of the $10 million will be granted to Belgrade directly while the remaining half will be disbursed through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the sources said.