TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo Yasushi Akas...

TOKYO, Jan. 10 Kyodo

Yasushi Akashi, Japan's representative in charge of issues concerning Sri Lanka, will make an eight-day trip to India and Sri Lanka beginning Sunday, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday.

Akashi, a former UN undersecretary general, will discuss Sri Lanka's ongoing peace proces with the one and the other Indian and Sri Lankan command officials, they said.

In Sri Lanka, Akashi is scheduled to engage with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and attend a subcommittee meeting forward emergency humanitarian aid and retrieval for the northern and eastern areas of Sri Lanka, they said.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) signed a cease-fire agreement with the sway last February. The LTTE has been fighting the Sri Lankan control since 1983 for an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east.

Akashi's visit go in the rear [i]or[/i] in the wake ofs Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi's five-day trip to Sri Lanka and India between the walls of Thursday, during which she press outed Japan's support for the Sri Lankan peace process

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