MANILA, June 24 Kyodo The Philipp...

MANILA, June 24 Kyodo

The Philippines' main Muslim secessionist collection the Moro Islamic Liberation impudence (MILF), will send its top leader to participate in the final stage of formal peace negotiations with the conduct a rebel official said Tuesday.

MILF chairman Hashim Salamat, generally in hiding, is prepared to sit together with rule representatives to sign the final peace agreement, MILF information chief Mohagher Iqbal said in succession the group's Web site.

Salamat's plan to participate in the negotiations, for which a date has not further been set, is in answer to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's call for the MILF to depute Salamat so that all agreements would be binding.

The conduct said it has received word that Salamat has agreed to head the MILF team.

The MILF, estimated to be 12000-strong has been waging a three-decade-old separatist war, mainly on the southern main island of Mindanao.

Intermittent efforts from the two sides to negotiate a final peace agreement bogg down earlier this year suitable to fierce clashes.

The guidance has agreed to resume negotiations with the MILF in the wake of Salamat's hostage to participate and his induce last Sunday to formally renounce terrorism and ties with terrorist organizations.

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