(30 Jan 2005)
1. Various of convoy including both Aceh rebels and the Indonesian government driving north of Helsinki in snow, security, falling snow
2. A house just visible through the trees
3. Police cars
4. Policeman
5. Convoy coming through gate
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sofyan Djalil, Indonesia Communication Minister:
"The government of Indonesia extends our willingness to solve the problem in Ache permanently, but since don't talk to each other for quite some time - for more than two years - and we never see each other face-to-face since the last decade. So, I think this meeting is quite hopeful. At least we talk, we see each other, we look in the face, we hear each other. And the terms for confidence building it is quite good."
7. Venue for news conference
8. Various of Martti Ahtisaar entering room and sitting down
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martti Ahtisaari, Former Finnish President:
"At the moment there is no official ceasefire at this stage, there is no sign document for the cease fire at the moment, but I think it is extremely useful and important that both the government of Indonesia and GAM (Free Ache Movement rebels) have said that they will try to refrain, and as I said I made an appeal to both parties that they should behave in a manner so that it would facilitate the flow of humanitarian assistance in Aceh which seems to be functioning on the basis of information I received for five years from UN."
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Martti Ahtisaari, Former Finnish President:
"Nothing is agreed before everything is agreed. I think it has to be the basis of starting to probe the attitudes of both parties, and therefore this was more raising questions, trying to look for answers. I think that we have also tried to narrow down the field. If the parties decide to accept my invitation, which they haven't done yet, we can narrow the number of topics that need to be discussed, and go in depth on those."
12. Cutaway
STORYLINE:
Members of the Indonesian government and Aceh rebel leaders on Saturday cut short talks on tsunami relief operations and ways of ending a
30-year conflict in the breakaway region a day early, but Finnish mediators invited them to continue negotiations at a later date.
The two sides met at a secluded manor house north of the Finnish capital, Helsinki, for talks convened by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari.
Ahtisaari did not reveal why the closed-door talks, which had been scheduled to continue Sunday, finished a day early, but said he had invited both parties for a second round of meetings in Helsinki.
Ahtisaari said neither party had yet accepted the invitation and he declined to comment on the stance of either party.
"Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed," Ahtisaari said at a news conference after the talks ended.
After Ahtisaari met separately with each party on Thursday, the two sides talked without mediation, but no details of the negotiations were divulged.
Five-members of GAM, the Free Aceh Movement, delegation, led by the self-exiled government's president, Malik Mahmoud, said they would focus on making it safe for relief workers to help rebuild Aceh in the wake of the tsunami.
Ahtisaari, 67, was Finland's president from 1994-2000 and has held senior UN Posts including commissioner for Namibia and undersecretary-general for management and administration. He was special adviser to the U.N. Secretary-General on the former Yugoslavia in 1993.
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