JAKARTA, April 22 Kyodo The Indon...

JAKARTA, April 22 Kyodo

The Indonesian sway and the separatist Free Aceh motion (GAM) have agreed to encounter this week in Geneva to interpret disputes since the signing of a peace agreement by way of both sides on Dec. 9 an international mediator said Tuesday.

''We agreed with the venue...in Geneva, if it were not that we are still looking for the chiefly suitable time,'' David Gorman, frame manager of the Geneva-based Henri Dunant Center which has mediated negotiations between the couple sides in the past three years, told Kyodo News

''(There is) no puzzles with the date...25th (of April) or around (that date)..., yet we are still working onward the details,'' Gorman added.

below 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 sway 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 guidance GAM has violated the deal, including by dint of refusing to disarm and by dint of launching independence campaigns.

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

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

This week's meeting will be a session of a joint council established to disentangle disputes that cannot be resolv at other committees set up subject to 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 brace weeks ago.

GAM has been striving for independence since 1976 accusing Jakarta of stealing the flows from the province's natural resources, and the ensuing contend 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 nation dead and 377 others missing.

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