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The talks were officially launched on Tuesday in Lome.

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    After a prayer by Catholic Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi, the RUF delegation sang their rebel anthem while members of the government negotiating team "sat motionless", AFP reported. Rogers repeated the RUF calls for a four-year transitional government, a blanket amnesty for RUF members and freedom for the movement's leader, Foday Sankoh, news organisations reported. The head of the government's delegation, Justice Minister Solomon Berewa, said that the right of the Sierra Leonean people to choose how they are governed needed to be respected: President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah was democratically elected in February 1996.

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