ALGERIAN WAR

Press, Issue 29236, 21 June 1960, Page 15

ALGERIAN WAR

Cease-Fire Talks

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11.40 p.m.) TUNIS, June 20.

The Algerian F.L.N. rebel leaders today agreed to send a delegation to Paris to discuss a cease fire.

A statement issued by the insurgent leadership in reply to President de Gaulle’s latest offer of cease-fire talks also said they were sending an envoy to Paris to prepare the way for the delegation.

In a television broadcast last Tuesday, General de Gaulle appealed to the insurgents to discuss “an honourable end to the fighting," and said: “We are waiting for them in Paris.”

The insurgent statement said the “Algerian Provisional Government” had decided to send a delegation led by the Prime Minister, Mr Ferhat Abbas, to meet General de Gaulle:

It was sending a senior official to Paris to arrange the delegation’s visit.

The rebels said: “The President of the French Republic has just reaffirmed in an explicit manner the right of the Algerian people to self-determination. According to the terms of this declaration, the final decision belongs to the Algerian people. "The provisional government of the Algerian Republic is convinced that, if the organisation of the referendum was surrounded by all indispensible guarantees of sincerity, the choice of the Algerian people would be, without any doubt, independence.”