It was approved just days after President Hamid Karzai began work on the government's reconciliation plan.

Abhisit launched a reconciliation plan to investigate the crackdown, but the work of the investigation commission was hampered by military and government agencies.

A woman whose parents were killed in the Northern Ireland violence reacted angrily to a reconciliation plan on Wednesday.

"We are stuck between the hammer and the anvil because of the national reconciliation plan," he said.

On June 25, al-Maliki presented a national reconciliation plan to the Iraqi parliament.

Mr. Maliki's reconciliation plan is vague, perhaps purposefully so, about which insurgent groups the government considers suitable to negotiate with.

Having talked to James Jonah following his visit and having seen the national reconciliation plan, I am prepared to consider what is necessary.

"We're examining their payment and reconciliation plan, which we expect to implement in January," she said.

The group's warfare against the Algerian state continues despite reconciliation plan, although Bouteflika's government claims it has had an impact in removing support for the group.

For any reconciliation plan to work, it must at least respect the rule of law and must not be discriminatory.