Nairobi - Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army, will only sign a final peace deal on Sunday if an international warrant for his arrest is dropped, the group's spokesman said Friday.

"It is possible he (Kony) will sign, but he wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop its arrest warrant before he signs," LRA spokesman David Matsanga told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Kony is on Sunday scheduled to meet United Nations special envoy Joaquim Chissano, former president of Mozambique, and the Vice President of Southern Sudan, Riek Machar on the border between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the LRA is holed up.

Talks to end the conflict - which has displaced close to two million people in northern Uganda and left thousands dead, mutilated or abducted by the rebels - first began mid-2006 with the mediation of the South Sudanese government.

Kony refused to sign the deal earlier this year, demanding that the ICC withdraw five arrest warrants slapped on its leaders and allow local courts to handle any trials.

The LRA leadership face charges of war crimes, including murder and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. (dpa)