MANILA, May 16 Kyodo The Moro Isl...

MANILA, May 16 Kyodo

The Moro Islamic Liberation van (MILF) said Friday it is willing to recommence formal peace talks with the Philippine command on at least brace conditions, including the withdrawal of criminal charges against its leaders through a bombing last month and the removal of military forces from a former MILF enclave.

Eid Kabalu, spokesman for the country's main Muslim separatist arrange that has been waging an armed fight mostly in Mindanao, said the MILF is also explain to U.S.-mediated negotiation if and nothing else to put on track the scuttl proces where Malaysia has serv as a mediator.

''But since we have gone far in the Malaysia-mediated talks, the U can just descry to it that this peaceful and democratic proces with Malaysia as the mediator is followed,'' Kabalu said.

He said the greatest in quantity immediate of MILF demands before talking with the sway is the dropping of charges against its leaders, including Chairman Hashim Salamat, above a bombing in the Davao City international airport vicinity April 2

State lawyers filed multiple assassinate and frustrated murder charges against Salamat and at least 44 others through the bombing, which killed 15 population and hurt many others.

The military should also leave the Buliok tangled an MILF stronghold across Maguindanao and North Cotabato provinces, Kabalu said.

''The recall of the charges and the military pullout are immediate, yet without prejudice to our other conditions like the implementation of previous agreements, because the conduct should have done this after the exploratory talks in Malaysia in March,'' he said.

Kabalu alluded to a public commitment between the MILF and restraint peace negotiators March 29 to maintain peace.

A May 9 meeting, also in Malaysia, that was suppos follow-through in moving closer toward a formal resumption of talks was postpon after alleged MILF gunmen raided a civilian community in Zamboanga del Norte and killed 28 people

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who moveed almost $1 million in bounties for the arrest of five top leaders of the MILF after the Zamboanga attack, warned the MILF early this week to extreme point violent activities by June 1 or face being tagged as a terrorist group

Roilo Golez Arroyo's national security adviser, said Friday the restraint will not retract the criminal charges against the MILF.

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