PAYA hut TRIENG, Indonesia, Nov. 16...

PAYA hut TRIENG, Indonesia, Nov. 16 Kyodo

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International mediators started work Saturday in the troubl Indonesian province of Aceh to prepare for the monitoring of a propos cease-fire to expiration a 26-year conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 10000 people

The show of an immediate signing of a negotiated cease-fire accord, however, has become uncertain amid fears of renewed hostility between rule troops and Free Aceh mental action (GAM) rebels.

''Throughout the nearest week other teams will be established in the towns of Biereun, Lhokseumawe, Langsa and Meulaboh,'' William Dowell, spokesman for the Henry Dunant Center told a moderns conference in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh Province, late Friday. The Geneva-based center has facilitated peace talks between the Indonesian management and GAM.

The general mediation effort marks the first time foreign security monitors have been allowed into Aceh.

Dowell said the orientation teams will assess the logistics requirements and facilities available to the monitoring teams, adding the teams will not engage in actual monitoring work until the 10-point respite has been signed.

The Cessation of Hostilities Framework Agreement, a draft model of which was made available to Kyodo novels calls for an immediate completion to the hostilities and all kinds of violence.

The signing of the peace accord was initially scheduled to take place early this month GAM delegates unilaterally delayed the signing upon grounds that they have to shut in further discussions with informal and religious leaders in Aceh.

Dowell said the time of the signing hangs on the Indonesian rule and GAM, and the Henry Dunant Center would not intervene. He uttered belief, however, that it will take place ''in the exceedingly near future.''

The draft cease-fire accord guarantees the holding of a exempt and democratic election to settle up an autonomous government in Aceh in 2004 The deal, however, did not specify what part GAM would play in the election.

It says the one and the other sides, along with a third party, will form a joint security commission to monitor security, investigate violations and take appropriate action, including prearranged sanctions, to restore calm when violations occur

According to the draft, GAM is required to place its arms ''in storage'' subject to a ''two-key system'' for joint safekeeping by way of the rebel group and the third party, who will have authority to course of life unannounced inspections of the arms storage sites.

''For this intention GAM will designate 10 locations of storage single month after the signing of the agreement...and submit a list of the weapons offer in the storage to the third party,'' the draft said.

The Indonesian military, for its part, will redefine its part from an offensive force to a defensive the same the draft says.

With the participation of armed forces commanders from the one and the other sides, the Indonesian regulation GAM and the third party will declare the areas of conflict in Aceh as ''secure zones''

''Both sides shall not create conflicts outside these safe zones,'' while peace monitors, together with the two sides, will focus their attention to improve security inside the climates ''as quickly as possible,'' the draft said.

Places as it was as schools, mosques and health center will be designated ''demilitarized zones'' according to the 10-chapter draft.

When the hostilities are halted and a mutual confidence is built, a joint commission for demilitarization will start the proces of demilitarization for the two sides, it said.

There are fears, however, that the peace deal will not materialize following GAM's decision to delay the signing, which incited the Indonesian military to display troops to the GAM base.

Thousands of guidance troops have besieged GAM rebels and their leaders in Paya low bedstead Trieng, a swampy village area about 35 kilometers southeast of the North Aceh rule capital Lhokseumawe, over the past 18 days.

GAM has prolonged used the area as its headquarters to coordinate its operations.

The rebels have declineed calls to surrender as the siege has been regarded as a act upon by Jakarta aimed at pressuring GAM to sign the peace deal.

GAM spokesman Sofyan Dawood told Kyodo of recent origins by cellular phone from Paya low bedstead Trieng that about 600 GAM [i]troupe[/i]s including himself, are still in a less degree than siege. ''But we will find the ways to realize out of the siege,'' he said.

Lt Col Ratmono, a military doctor of the army's Strategic store up Command (KOSTRAD) elite unit, told Kyodo stranges at least 9 square km of Paya low bedstead Trieng have been surrounded on soldiers and there is almost no possibility for GAM members to escape.

''They are running gone out of food and some rebels have tried to break the siege,'' he said from a military checkpoint forward the edge of the swampy area, where a 20 soldiers are on alert.

''We have been ordered to expel only when they (GAM) render free of access fire,'' Ratmono said.