COLOMBO Nov. 5 Kyodo Japanese le...

COLOMBO Nov. 5 Kyodo

Japanese legate Yasushi Akashi met with Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga forward Tuesday to discuss Sri Lanka's peace talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels and a potential Japanese part to help rebuild the war-battered country

Akashi, a former UN proxy secretary general, is visiting Sri Lanka just days after the Sri Lankan guidance wound up a second spherical of peace talks in Thailand with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with the pair sides reporting progress in their efforts to fall of the curtain nearly two decades of civil war.

Kumaratunga told Akashi that the Sri Lankan regulation hopes Japan would play a part in the peace process in Sri Lanka.

Akashi also met separately with Sri Lankan Constitutional Affairs Minister GL Peiris, the head of the Sri Lanka command delegation to the peace talks with the LTTE

Akashi plans to adapted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe onward Wednesday before heading to the LTTE-controll northern Sri Lanka.

In the north, Akashi will hem in talks with LTTE leaders and inspect retrieval efforts in the area.

In their latest cylindrical of peace talks in Thailand, the Sri Lankan management and the LTTE agreed to settle up a joint task force to deal with immediate humanitarian and rehabilitation povertys in the war-stricken northeast Sri Lanka.

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