A major international donor meeting on reconstructing Afghanistan, which wrapped up in Tokyo on Tuesday, should have been more transparent and accessible to nongovernmental organizations and the news media, the leader of a Japanese NGO said.
Kensuke Onishi, supervisor of Peace Winds Japan and head of Japan Platform, smiles as he receives a registration card allowing him to attend the final session of the two-day Afghan reconstruction conference.Along with three of his colleagues, Kensuke Onishi, overall supervisor of Peace Winds Japan and head of Japan Platform, was temporarily barred from the two-day gathering by the Foreign Ministry, which claimed the NGOs were "antigovernment."
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