Nongovernmental organizations from Afghanistan on Tuesday explained the key issues facing their post-Taliban country at the start of a three-day conference in Tokyo to discuss rebuilding the war-torn country.
Among them are opium production, education and land mines, the NGOs said.
About 200 people from 27 Afghan NGOs, 37 Japanese NGOs as well as U.N. agencies and the Japanese, U.S., British, German and Russian governments are taking part in a three-day conference that began Tuesday at a hotel somewhere in Tokyo. They hope to draw up specific proposals for the war-torn country ahead of a ministerial meeting by donor countries to be held in Tokyo in January.