HELSINKI (AFP) - Indonesian government ministers meet with leading
Aceh separatists here on Monday for a "decisive" second round of peace
talks aimed at ending a drawn-out conflict in the province that so far
has killed more than 12,000 people.
Like the first round of talks at the end of January, the negotiations
will take place at the Koeningstedt estate, outside Helsinki, and will
be mediated by former Finnish president and career diplomat Martti
Ahtisaari.
The first round of meetings proved largely unfruitful, and Ahtisaari
told AFP he felt the next round would be "decisive" in determining
whether the two sides would manage to reach common ground for further
negotiations.
"We don't know what the end result is going to be. In that sense the
next meeting will be decisive because after that we'll know if these
negotiations will lead to something or not," he said.
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