Sri Lanka has agreed to hold crunch peace talks with the Tamil Tigers in Geneva on Oct. 28-30, the government said yesterday, amid efforts to halt a new chapter in the island's two-decade civil war. "The government has agreed to unconditional talks while retaining the right to retaliate if the LTTE launch any attack," the government said on its official website www.news.lk.The Tigers, who have fought for two decades for an independent homeland, proposed the dates and wanted to hold the talks in Oslo. They were not immediately available for comment. Oslo's special peace envoy Jon Hanssen-Bauer held fresh talks earlier with Sri Lankan officials to try to set a date.