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Peace monitors in Indonesia's Aceh extend mission until December
Asian Political News, Sept 11, 2006
JAKARTA, Sept. 11 Kyodo
The Aceh Monitoring Mission said Monday it has extended its stay to oversee the peace process in Indonesia's Aceh Province until Dec. 15, or four days after the scheduled first direct local election.
The AMM, whose term was supposed to expire Sept. 15, will stay on with only 36 monitors, compared with the more than 200 monitors when it started a year ago.
''The AMM will provide an international presence in the run-up to the local election, confirmed for 11 December. However, the AMM will not observe the elections as it is not within its mandate,'' it said.
A separate election observation mission from the European Union has been invited by the Indonesian government to observe the elections, the AMM said.
The AMM started monitoring the peace process after Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement signed a peace pact in Helsinki in August last year, ending almost three decades of war that killed thousands of people.
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