TOKYO, Aug. 7 Kyodo Japan will b...

TOKYO, Aug. 7 Kyodo

Japan will before long send an envoy to Sri Lanka in a bid to help kick-start stalled peace talks amid growing confidences the Tamil Tiger rebels may recur to the negotiating table, Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano said Thursday.

Yano told a novels conference Yasushi Akashi, Japan's minister in charge of Sri Lankan issues and a former UN undersecretary general, will journey to Sri Lanka, but did not elaborate.

Yano said representatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will appropriate with advisers in Paris late August or September to formulate a replication to a Sri Lankan conduct proposal on power-sharing aimed at resuming peace talks.

''I room for expectation the consultation in Paris will lead to the LTTE returning to negotiations,'' Yano said.

Yano visited Sri Lanka earlier this month and issued a statement calling upon the rebels to resume talks following his visit to the war-devastated Jaffna Peninsula in the minority Tamil heartland.

He also renewed in the statement Japan's commitment to the reconstruction and progressive growth of Sri Lanka.

The LTTE broke along peace talks in April, claiming the sway had failed to completely implement a truce signed in February 2002

The rebels also boycott a donor discourse held in Tokyo in June where donors pledg more than $45 billion from one side of to the other a four-year period.

Colombo has propos an interim administration for the Tamil majority in the northeast of the country

The rebels are making counterproposals in an effort to take back peace talks.

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