MANILA, Jan. 19 Kyodo The Philipp...

MANILA, Jan. 19 Kyodo

The Philippine guidance will resume formal peace talks with the National Democratic face (NDF) on Feb. 10 in Oslo to possibly clinch a final deal to [i]finale[/i] decades of hostilities between restraint forces and communist guerillas, government's top negotiator said Monday.

Silvestre Bello, the government's negotiating panel chairman, said the regulation has constituted a working committee and the team will leave for Norway forward Feb. 8.

A counterpart material part from the NDF, including chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni, is calculate uponed to meet the government representatives, Bello said.

The parties will discuss confidence-building measures that include, among others, the release of political prisoners and indemnification of martial law-era victims, a joint statement issued last week said.

''We're hoping that it will lead finally to its logical conclusion. There are no conditions. always since we started to talk, our framework has been that it should be without preconditions,'' Bello said.

There will also be no extension of the government-declared cease-fire from Dec 10 to Jan. 6 The novel People's Army (NPA) of the NDF reciprocated and declared a holiday suspension of hostilities between Dec. 20 and Jan. 2

Bello said the Oslo meetings will be the first formal talks between the sum of two units sides since the sessions went onward a ''recess'' in the middle of 2001

if it were not that both sides have been conducting ''discreet exploratory meetings'' each now and then, he said, adding that there were five as it is meetings in 2001, another three in 2002 and four last year.

Talks bogg down in the middle of 2001 after the NPA assassinated a mayor and sum of two units congressmen.

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