TOKYO, March 6 Kyodo Japan will ...

TOKYO, March 6 Kyodo

Japan will innkeeper a round of peace negotiations between the Sri Lankan sway and the Tamil Tiger rebels from March 18 to 21 the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

The meeting, the sixth of its kind, will be held in Hakone, a hot-spring resort town in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, the ministry said.

The peace proces in Sri Lanka will hopefully be advanced with the talks in Japan, ministry officials said.

The Sri Lankan regulation and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been negotiating to achieve peace, and the sum of two units sides have held five orbeds of negotiations since last September with intermediation of the Norwegian government

The LTTE which had been fighting the Sri Lankan rule since 1983 for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east, signed a cease-fire agreement with the conduct in February last year.

The sum of two units parties are said to have made tangible progres in their talks by way of reaching a basic agreement forward sharing of power.

However, dominion officials in Sri Lanka have indicated the pair sides will start tackling contentious issues in Hakone, including revenue-sharing in subordination to a federal power-sharing system.

The series of peace negotiations will lay the groundwork for a meeting of international donors in June in Japan.

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