Indonesia, Rebels Agree to Direct Aceh Peace Talks
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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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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province call on Jakarta to join them in a truce to allow effective tsunami relief.
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BANDA ACEH, Aceh : Indonesian soldiers have killed six suspected rebels during two separate gunbattles in the troubled province of Aceh, the military said on Tuesday.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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The head of a foreign monitoring mission overseeing a peace pact between ex-rebels in Indonesia&#039;s Aceh and the Jakarta government has given an initial nod to a law cementing the deal.
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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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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Fresh earthquakes in Asia  Monday rattled traumatized survivors of last month's killer  tsunami, while Indonesia and rebels in Aceh agreed to hold  talks, seeking to turn the calamity into a chance for peace.
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Indonesian officials and separatist  rebels, brought together by the tsunami that devastated Aceh  province, met for the first time in nearly two years on Friday  to try to forge a deal to end 30 years of war.
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh offer to put independence demands on hold in return for an eventual referendum.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia said on  Thursday restrictions on aid workers in Aceh were for their own  safety in a province troubled by a decades-old insurgency, and  voiced readiness to sit down with the rebels to seek a  cease-fire.
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Indonesia&#39;s recently-elected president has visited the country&#39;s war-torn province of Aceh, the scene of one of Asia&#39;s longest-running separatist rebellions.
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HELSINKI -- The Indonesian government and Aceh rebel leaders will resume peace talks in Finland later this month, the latest effort to end a 30-year conflict in the breakaway region, the Finnish mediator's office said yesterday.
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Indonesia's president expects a team of  ministers to hold a second round of peace talks with separatist  rebels from tsunami-hit Aceh province at the end of the month  in Helsinki, the Financial Times said on Saturday.
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Senior Indonesian officials and  separatist rebels, brought together by the tsunami that ravaged  Aceh province, met for the first time in nearly two years on  Friday to try to forge a deal to end 30 years of war.
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Successful democratic elections are an encouraging indicator of lasting peace in the formerly restive Indonesian province. But a strong showing by former rebels means Jakarta may still have some bridges to mend
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Indonesia said on Wednesday it hoped to hold talks with separatist rebels operating in tsunami-hit Aceh province at the end of this month to try to ease security concerns amid a massive humanitarian operation.
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The military has agreed to hold talks with Muslim rebels involved in a bloody insurgency in southern Thailand, the powerful army chief said Thursday, reversing a policy of the elected government deposed in a coup last month.