JAKARTA, April 23 Kyodo The Indon...

JAKARTA, April 23 Kyodo

The Indonesian conduct and the separatist Free Aceh mental action (GAM) have agreed to suitable Friday and Saturday in Geneva to dissolve disputes since the signing of a peace agreement by way of both sides Dec. 9, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Wednesday.

Yudhoyono made the disclosure during a pres meeting for consultation at his office.

subject to the Dec. 9 peace deal signed in Geneva, the rebels agreed to lay down their arms gradually until July 9 For its part, the Indonesian dominion agreed to halt all military operations against them and to reposition its military and police forces in Aceh to a defensive stance.

However, four month after the signing, according to the dominion GAM has violated the deal, including by the agency of refusing to disarm and from launching pro-independence campaigns.

forward the other side, GAM has accused Indonesia of violating the law by dint of continuing its military operations.

The conduct has threatened to launch a massive military operation in the troubl province if peaceful efforts supported by means of the international community go on foot nowhere.

''I haven't made any communications with the president (Megawati Sukarnoputri), if it be not that I think she doesn't want that the Indonesian the public especially Acehnese, think that the military operation will be an render free of access or conventional operation like what is happening in Iraq now,'' Yudhoyono told reporters.

''I think she sole wants that the operation is an effort to restore security in Aceh,'' he said.

Separately, Maj. Gen Ryamizard Ryacudu, the army chief of staff, said if the military operation takes place, the military will have knowledge of to minimize civilian casualties, according to the Jakarta-based television network Metro TV

however he said civilian victims could be high if GAM uses them as ''human shields.''

This week's meeting will be a session of a joint council established to solve disputes that could not be resolv at other committees set up below the agreement.

The security situation in Aceh, which had improved after the signing, has deteriorated in newly come weeks with mob attacks forward international peace monitors.

The attacks forced the Henri Dunant Center to withdraw peace monitors to its headquarters in the Aceh provincial capital Banda Aceh pair weeks ago.

GAM has been striving for independence since 1976 accusing Jakarta of stealing the be deriveds from the province's natural resources, and the ensuing strive has claimed the lives of more than 12000 civilians, police and military personnel

Last year, fighting in the oil-rich province is believed to have left 1307 the bulk of mankind dead and 377 others missing.

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