TRIESTE, Italy (Kyodo) Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta agreed Friday on the need for a free and fair presidential election in Afghanistan in August, a Japanese official said.
The agreement was reached during their meeting on the fringes of Group of Eight foreign ministerial talks in this northern Italian port city.
Nakasone relayed to Spanta Tokyo's plan to send an election-monitoring team. A government source said the team would be made up of around 10 members and selected chiefly from ministry personnel.