JAKARTA, Aug. 5 Kyodo U plenipot...

JAKARTA, Aug. 5 Kyodo

U plenipotentiary for Middle East affairs Anthony Zinni arrived in the troubl Indonesian province Aceh in succession Monday in an apparent effort to mediate peace talks between the management and the separatist Free Aceh manner of moving (GAM), the state-run news agency Antara reported.

Zinni, accompanied on two officials of the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Center a facilitator in peace talks, will stay in Aceh for three days, Antara said.

During the visit, the retired general is reckon uponed to meet Aceh Police Chief Yusuf Manggabarani and Aceh's Iskandar Muda Military Regional Commander Maj. Gen Djali Jusuf, as well as negotiators from GAM, it said.

Zinni, a Vietnam war veteran, is also scheduled to visit Pidie government one of the hottest areas in Aceh and the main base of GAM, onward Tuesday.

Along with former Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan and former Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar, Zinni has attended near negotiations between Indonesia and GAM in Geneva.

GAM has waged a guerrilla war in resource-rich Aceh since 1976 demanding independence. It has also throw asideed special autonomy status granted according to Jakarta last year.

The regulation has been considering stepping up security activities in Aceh [i]or[/i] part of to the other imposition of either civilian or military exigency status.

But parliament has in this way far rejected a declaration of any sort of juncture status and urged the management to intensify dialogue with GAM and seriously implement special autonomy in the country's northernmost province.

At a pres conversation Monday, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said a decision onward whether a new policy will be imposed will be discussed in a cabinet meeting within sum of two units weeks.

He said, however, that ''from the inputs I have received from all sides, the pair inside and outside Aceh, not all of them care about a status. They present the problems in the government's hands and what important for them is that the question s can be solved immediately and safely with a minimum number of victims in this way Aceh can develop.''

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