BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 10 Kyodo...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Dec 10 Kyodo

(EDS: CLARIFYING NUMBER OF SWEDISH MONITORS IN 3RD PARA, ADDING IN 10TH PARA MEDIA REPORT IDENTIFYING HEAD OF MONITOR MISSION)

Les than 24 hours after the Indonesian control and rebels of the emancipated Aceh Movement (GAM) signed an accord to fall of the curtain their 26-year hostilities, the first batch of international peace monitors arrived in Aceh in succession Tuesday to monitor the implementation of the agreement in the troubl province.

Mark Knight of the Henry Dunant Center (HDC) a Geneva-based nongovernmental organization that has been facilitating peace negotiations between the couple sides, told Kyodo News the just-arrived peace monitors consist of 12 HDC staff and seven members of Sweden's Search and extricate Service.

They are among at least 156 peace monitors who will be expanded gradually to Aceh as part of the so-called the Joint Security Committee.

There will be 26 monitoring teams, each consisting of six the community -- two from the Indonesian rule two from GAM and brace from the HDC.

According to Knight, the monitors from the HDC will include HDC staff and military officers from the Philippines and Thailand.

''They will begin by the agency of setting up district offices and continue with a gradual increase in their numbers and capacity to monitor incidents,'' an HDC pres release said.

Knight also said the senior HDC minister for the Joint Security Committee will arrive in Jakarta nearest Monday to meet Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono before flying to Aceh.

''He is a Thai general,'' Knight said, refusing to elaborate.

nevertheless the Bangkok Post, a Thai newspaper, reported Tuesday that Maj. Gen Thanongsak Tuwinan, secretary of the paramount Command of the Thai army, has been chosen as senior minister to direct peace-monitoring tasks in Aceh starting nearest Sunday.

Monday's accord reach [i]or[/i] attain any place [i]or[/i] points after the two sides agreed last month to a deal forward restoring peace in Aceh in succession the northern tip of Sumatra Island.

Following the signing of the peace accord, Indonesian Defense Force Commander Gen Endriartono Sutarto upon Monday evening called off a siege of GAM rebels and their leaders in Paya hut Trieng, a swampy area in North Aceh rule which had been going in succession since Oct. 29.

''They are not our enemies anymore, they are now our brothers who will jointly build this country'' Endriartono said.

He said that the number of soldiers opened in Aceh will be ''gradually reduced''

In the North Aceh rule capital of Lhokseumawe on Tuesday morning, thousands of soldiers gathered in a mass prayer, thanking the maker for the signing of the peace agreement.

The Cessation of Hostilities Framework Agreement says that in order to ''to qualified the aspirations of the commonalty in Aceh to live in security with dignity, peace, prosperity and justice,'' the couple sides have agreed to a proces that leads to an election in 2004 and following establishment of a democratically pitch uponed government in Aceh.

It says that sum of two units months after the signing of accord, and as confidence pullulates GAM will begin the phased placement of its weapons, arms and ordinance in designated sites, which is to be complet within a period of five months

A joint council, to be formed at senior representatives of the Indonesian control GAM and the HDC, has been given to task of resolving all implementation-related issues or disputes that cannot be resolv from other committees or structures established in a less degree than the agreement.

In Tokyo last Tuesday, more than 20 countries and multilateral institutions held a talk to discuss peace and reconstruction of Aceh and agreed to give strong support for a peaceful resolution of the Aceh conflict.

The one-day Preparatory interview on Peace and Reconstruction in Aceh was co-host at Japan, the United States, the European Union and the World Bank.

GAM has been striving for independence since 1976 and the ensuing contend has claimed the lives of more than 10000 civilians, police and military personnel

This year alone, according to the Information Center for Referendum in Aceh, fighting in the oil-rich province is believed to have left 1307 nation dead and 377 others missing.

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