by Agence France Presse
Philippine communist rebel negotiators met a special Norwegian envoy on Monday in a fresh bid to reopen stalled peace talks to end a four-decade war with the government, aides said.
The rebels' chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni met the envoy at the embassy in Manila but details of the talks were not disclosed, the insurgent secretariat said.
Government negotiator Alexander Padilla told AFP he would meet the Norwegian envoy on Tuesday but he did not know if the rebel negotiators would be at the talks as well.
Norway, which has been brokering the on-off talks, sent the envoy, Ture Lundh, to the Philippines after negotiations stalled over the demand of the National Democratic Front that the government free 13 captured comrades.
The two sides hope to seal a peace accord by June 2012 but the new impasse has soured ties, with the government accusing the NDF of bad faith for kidnapping a town mayor and four jail guards recently.
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