TOKYO, Feb 10 Kyodo Yasushi Akash...

TOKYO, Feb 10 Kyodo

Yasushi Akashi, Japan's representative in charge of issues concerning Sri Lanka, will leave Tuesday for an eight-day trip to Sri Lanka and India to discuss the Sri Lankan peace proces Foreign Ministry officials said Monday.

During his stay in Sri Lanka from Wednesday within Saturday, Akashi is scheduled to appropriate with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, among others, according to the officials.

The former UN undersecretary general is scheduled to leave Colombo for recently made known Delhi on Saturday and leave the Indian capital for family on Monday, according to the officials.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had been fighting the Sri Lankan regulation since 1983 for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east, before the sum of two units sides signed a cease-fire agreement in February last year.

Japan has been supporting the peace proces in Sri Lanka, with Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi also visiting the political division last month.

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