The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has formally expressed its willingness to open peace talks with the government with a view to end more than three decades old insurgency in Assam. <br/><br/>This was disclosed by State Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi in Guwahati yesterday. He said, the government has got a formal communication from a top leader of the outfit who matters in holding peace talks. Our Correspondent reports that a deadlock prevailed on opening peace talks following Union Home Ministry and State Government’s stand that the outfit leadership should first formally express their interest for such talks. Almost the entire ULFA top brass, including its chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa, deputy commander-in-chief Raju Baruah, foreign secretary Sasha Choudhury, finance secretary Chitraban Hazarika, cultural secretary Pranati Deka, and political ideologue Bhimkanta Buragohain- are now in jail. <br/><br/>The outfit’s vice-chairman Pradeep Gogoi and publicity secretary Mithinga Daimary are out of jail on bail and now gathering public opinion for the proposed peace talks. The only top ULFA leader, self-styled commander-in-chief Paresh Baruah, still remains elusive and believed to be somewhere on the Myanmar-China border.<br/>