The Solomon Islands' rebel militant, Harold Keke, has agreed to talks with the leader of the Australian-led intervention force. The special coordinator of the Solomon Islands Assistance Mission, Nick Warner, hopes to meet Keke within a week. The message from Harold Keke to Nick Warner was delivered to the leader of the intervention force late yesterday after Mr Warner returned from a separate mission to the Weather Coast, at which some of Keke's opponents agreed to give up their guns. "We have been making overtures to Harold Keke along the lines that we have to other ex-militant leaders, that is that the Regional Assistance Mission is willing to talk," Mr Warner said. "We've now heard back from him and I hope that we'll be able to hold those talks quite soon. For, I hope obvious operational reasons, I'm not going to be able to go into anymore detail."
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