A high-level meeting yesterday reviewed preparations for the seventh round of peace talks between the Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samlty (PCJSS) and the National Committee on Chittagong Hill Tracts (NCCHT) beginning In the capital on Sunday.

The meeting chaired by NCCHT convenor Abul Hasnat Abdullah, Chief Whip of the Jatiya Sangsad. also reviewed the progress of the arrangements for repatriation of the tribal refugees from Tripura, likely to begin on November 21. officials said. The authorities will neutralise or withdraw security forces and border guards from 13 camps and border outposts in and around the frontier hamlet of Dudukchhara In Khagrachhari today, ahead of arrival of the advance teams of PCJSS delegation from their headquarters in Tripura. India. They will be camping at their temporary headquarters at Dudukchhara. A militaiy helicopter will carry PCJSS supremo Jyotipriya Bodhipriya Larina alias Shantu Larma and his delegation to the capital on Sunday for the talks, aimed at reaching an agreement to resolve the decades-old. inaur-geney-br Shanttbahint-,-mtft* tary wing of the PCJSS.

Mohammad Ismail. Deputy Commissionar -of- Khagraeh— hart. Is leaving for Tripura on Thursday to meet his counterpart in Udaipur district on the repatriation of Chakma

He is likely to be given a list of returnees by the Indian officials. sources concerned said.

Meanwhile. PCJSS. Pahari Chhatra Parishad (pro-san -choy). Pahari Gana Parishad (PGP) and Hill Women s Federation separately observed the 14th death anniversary of PCJSS founder Manabendra Narayftn Larma. He was assassinated by a renegade faction of Shantlbanini at his hideout in Kalayanpur. Tripura. In 1983.