JAKARTA -- Foreign mediators in the Aceh separatist conflict said Tuesday they would focus on efforts to demilitarize the resource-rich province and make it safe for its people.

Indonesia and representatives of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on December 9 signed an accord in Geneva to end the 26-year war that has killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, AFP reported.

"The important thing about the agreement is that what it is trying to do is to demilitarize Aceh," said David Gorman of the Swiss-based mediation body the Henry Dunant Center (HDC).

GAM said Monday that at least 10 people have been killed since the peace accord. There was no confirmation of the report. Gorman said the cease-fire agreement aimed to "create a conducive atmosphere through which the people of Aceh may begin to participate in political processes, in economic development and that they may live a more normal life."

He was speaking to reporters following talks between HDC's senior envoy, Thai Major General Thanongsak Tuvinan, Indonesia's top Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Thanongsak will be one of the three senior envoys on a joint security committee which will monitor the truce, investigate violations and enforce sanctions.

The general said JSC would face problems in creating peace. "There will be difficulties of course, but all forms of difficulties will later be resolved by the joint committee."

Indonesia and GAM will also assign one senior envoy each to the committee. The three will each be assisted by up to four members.

About 150 cease-fire monitors will be deployed on the ground in six-member joint teams -- one third from GAM, one third from Indonesia and one third from the Philippine and Thai military, representing the HDC.

The Filipino team is led by Brigadier General Nagomora Lomodag.

The committee will begin work Friday to investigate all reported violations of the cease-fire.

Under the deal both parties will relocate to defensive positions and avoid "provocative acts" for the first two months. After that the rebels will begin dumping weapons at designated sites. Simultaneously, there will be a phased relocation of the armed forces "which will reformulate their mandate from a strike force to a defensive force."