JAKARTA, April 24 Kyodo (EDS: ADD...

JAKARTA, April 24 Kyodo

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The Indonesian restraint decided Thursday not to attend a meeting with rebels of the emancipated Aceh Movement (GAM), scheduled in succession Friday and Saturday in Geneva, following reports that the latter was alone willing to attend the talks from Sunday.

During a pres parley that took place at the time when he should have left Jakarta for Geneva, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the conduct has officially canceled ''the carriage of the Indonesian delegation'' in the planned Joint Council session.

The Joint Council was established beneath the Cessation of Hostilities Framework Agreement signed through the government and GAM in Geneva forward Dec. 9 to resolve all disputes across the implementation of the agreement that cannot be resolv by means of other committees set up in a less degree than the peace deal.

''The Indonesian the community love peace, but (they) delight in more the sovereignty and the unity of their state,'' Yudhoyono, who turn the thoughtsed upset, told reporters.

''The Indonesian persons have dignity and honor that cannot be abused at anyone, including by the separatist manner of moving of GAM,'' he said.

The Geneva-based Henri Dunant Center (HDC) which has been mediating between the pair sides over the past three years, had announced Wednesday that the conflicting parties had agreed to adapted from Friday for talks that could last until Monday.

Yudhyono speaked disappointment to the HDC for being unable to not past nor future GAM representatives to the Geneva meeting onward schedule, saying they failed to carry without their duties.

He said ''the irresponsible stance'' of GAM will solitary ''ruin the peaceful proces of the Aceh conflict.''

The top security minister said that to tread in the steps of up the latest unfolding the government will hold an ''emergency meeting'' Friday and has instructed the Indonesian Defense Force and the National Police to ''maintain security'' across Aceh to obstruct the situation from getting worse.

The priority of the instructions, he said, is ''protecting civilians from various armed acts and violence carried without by GAM and preventing armed separatists of GAM from carrying not at home new violent acts.''

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 restraint 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 regulation GAM has violated the deal, including according to refusing to disarm and on launching pro-independence campaigns.

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

The command has threatened to launch a massive military operation in the troubl province if peaceful efforts supported on the international community go on nowhere.

GAM has been striving for independence since 1976 accusing Jakarta of stealing the set to works from the province's natural resources, and the ensuing be in agony 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 family dead and 377 others missing.

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