of the present day DELHI, Aug. 15 K...

of the present day DELHI, Aug. 15 Kyodo

The Sri Lankan management and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to start formal peace talks nearest month in Thailand to fall of the curtain the island nation's 19-year ethnic conflict, peace factor Norway said Wednesday.

The Norwegian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement that the long-awaited peace talks will take place between tribe 12 and 17.

The agreement was reached in a meeting Wednesday in Oslo between a Sri Lankan management representative and Anton Balasingham, chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

The talks had been slated to begin in May in Thailand still have been pushed back owing to differences over the implementation of bourns of a truce agreement signed in February.

While the agenda for the face-to-face talks, the first between the couple sides since 1994, is to this time to be set, they are look forward toed to focus on reaching a permanent political agreement to last the long-running civil war.

The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 for a separate Tamil homeland in a war that has left more than 60000 dead upon both sides.

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