Sri Lanka government, rebels say willing to talk
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By David Brunnstrom and Simon GardnerBRUSSELS/COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels have told Norwegian mediators they are willing to return to peace talks without conditions, Japan's peace ...
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Uganda's government and the Lord's Resistance Army rebels are to resume talks with a truce now in effect.
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Sri Lanka's key lenders will hold fresh talks with Tamil Tiger rebels to assess tsunami damage amid hopes of finalising a reconstruction plan estimated to cost 1.5 billion dollars, officials said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers told Norway's special peace envoy on Tuesday they are prepared to meet the government for crunch peace talks in Oslo in late October, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters, in a move welcomed as "positive" by the government.
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VAKARAI, Sri Lanka  - Surveying a newly captured eastern rebel stronghold, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday vowed to tame the Tamil Tiger rebels and liberate civilians, but said the door remained open to resume peace talks.
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Sri Lanka's cabinet meets to discuss reactivating anti-terror laws amid worsening ties with Tamil rebels.
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Indonesian ministers and exiled rebel  leaders seeking the independence of the tsunami-devastated Aceh  province agreed with Finnish mediators on Thursday to hold  face-to-face talks about ending nearly 30 years of fighting.
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The government said Monday it would consider a demand from Colombia's main rebel group to hold face-to-face talks over swapping jailed insurgents for dozens of hostages, including three U.S. military contractors.
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With the Maoist blockade of Kathmandu completing its second day, the Nepal government on Thursday asked the rebels to resume peace talks.
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Thai military rulers say they have agreed to hold talks with southern rebels - a policy shift from the former regime.
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Sri Lanka's government on Friday rejected a Tamil Tiger offer to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s government has rejected demands from Tamil Tiger rebels to unconditionally resume peace talks. The rebels threatened at the weekend to return to military action unless discussions based on their blueprint for self-rule began again.
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MALACAÃANG on Friday assured the public that the government is willing to remove all hindrances to ensure that peace negotiations with the countryâs largest Muslim separatist group would push through.
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Sri Lanka&#39;s Tamil Tiger rebels threatened on Saturday to resume a two-decade war for self-rule that killed more than 64,000 people if the government did not agree to discuss their demands for self-rule soon.
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BRUSSELS/COLOMBO  - The Sri Lankan government and   Tamil Tiger rebels have told Norwegian mediators they are   willing to return to peace talks without conditions,   international peace mediators said on Tuesday.
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Sri Lanka's President  Mahinda Rajapakse tells the BBC  the door is still open for peace talks with the Tamil Tigers.
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Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapkse offered fresh peace talks and asked Tiger rebels to lay down weapons as he visited this former guerrilla-held town.