Indonesian officials and Aceh rebels will meet in Geneva next week to discuss the future of the Muslim province, the exiled Aceh separatist leader told AFP here Tuesday.
"I will be in Geneva next week, there are very many things going on there," Tengku Hasan di Tiro, leader of the independence-seeking Free Aceh Movement (GAM), said in a telephone interview from his home near Stockholm.
Speaking hours after Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid made a high-security visit to Aceh, Hasan di Tiro said he would not personally meet with any representatives of the government in Jakarta.
But "somebody from my organization will meet with them next week in Geneva," he added.
He declined to give any details on the substance of the meetings, saying only: "We have too much to talk about."
Wahid, clad in a bullet-proof vest during his lightening to Aceh province, rejected a renewal of a truce with separatist rebels there.
But the leader, speaking only 300 meters (yards) from where a bomb had exploded earlier that day, pledged to continue peace talks after the truce ended on January 15 -- STOCKHOLM (AFP)
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