The moderate faction of Hurriyat on Thursday decided to send a six-member delegation led by its chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] to pursue with "seriousness" the dialogue to find a "lasting and durable" solution to the Kashmir problem.

"It was unanimously decided to accept the invitation for talks by the prime minister, with a view to proceed with seriousness, imagination and courage to find an acceptable and durable solution to issue of Jammu and Kashmir [Images] in the larger interests of the people of the region," spokesman Abdul Majid Banday read from a prepared statement after a joint meeting of the executive committee, general council and working committee of the amalgam.

Mirwaiz would lead the Hurriyat delegation and had been authorised to nominate other members later, he said.

Highly placed sources said a six-member team would be flying to Delhi on September 4 for the talks. Besides the four executive committee members -- Mirwaiz, Bilal Gani Lone, Abdul Gani Bhat, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari -- Aga Syed Hassan and Fazl Haq Qureshi are likely to be included in the delegation to be announced on Friday, they said.

The September 5 meeting of the separatists with the prime minister would be its first with the United Progressive Alliance government and would be held nine days ahead of Dr Singh's scheduled meeting with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf [Images] in New York.

The amalgam had held two rounds of talks with then deputy prime minister Lal Kishenchand Advani in January and March in 2004 during the National Democratic Alliance regime.