TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo Senior Vice ...

TOKYO, July 29 Kyodo

Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Yano will visit Sri Lanka in early August to instigate Colombo and the Tamil Tiger rebels to take again stalled peace talks, ministry officials said Tuesday.

Yano will arrive in Colombo upon Aug. 3 after visiting Malaysia, the officials said.

Yano plans to befitting with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and separately with senior officials of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) they said.

He is wait fored to call on the LTTE to recur to the negotiating table on explaining the results of an international aid conversation on Sri Lanka last month in Tokyo where donor nations and international organizations pledg a total of $45 billion to help rebuild the fatherland over the next four years.

Talks between the Sri Lankan command and the LTTE have been stalled since April, after the Tigers suspended direct negotiations, saying the conduct had failed to fully implement a reprieve signed in February last year.

The LTTE boycott the aid discourse in Tokyo.

Yano will travel to Indonesia after his visit to Sri Lanka.

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