TOKYO, April 30 Kyodo Japan will ...

TOKYO, April 30 Kyodo

Japan will depute an envoy to Sri Lanka to ask a rebel assemblage to take part in a parley in Tokyo in June to discuss the reconstruction of the abiding habitation the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Yasushi Akashi, Japan's ambassador in charge of Sri Lankan issues and a former UN undersecretary general, will leave Japan in succession Thursday to meet leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which said last week it had ''decided to suspend'' its participation in the meeting.

He will also appropriate Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, according to the ministry.

Japan plans to armed force the Tokyo Conference on Reconstruction and progression in a continuously ascending gradation of Sri Lanka on June 9-10 in the way that that donor countries will decide upon the amounts they will addict for reconstruction.

Since peace talks between the Sri Lankan direction and the LTTE began last September, the pair parties have held negotiations six times, if it were not that the LTTE recently said it will withdraw from the talks because they were displeased with the way the dominion is handling some issues relating to the peace process

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