ASMARA, July 18 (Reuters) - Sudan and former eastern rebels held a high-level military meeting in Eritrea to coordinate security efforts after insurgents left their camps under a peace deal ending a decade-old conflict, Asmara said on Wednesday.

The peace agreement -- mediated by Eritrea last year -- ended a low-level insurgency in Sudan's economically vital east, but analysts say ethnic tensions within the rebels, among other issues, have hampered implementation of the deal.

"The Joint Committee drew up a timetable regarding the implementation of future work programmes in the military and security domains," said the government-run Eritrea Profile, referring to a military committee set up under the deal.

"It also reached agreement to hold continuous contacts between the two sides and resolve obstacles on time," the article in the English language bi-weekly newspaper said.

The Eastern Front group said earlier this month it had finished redeploying its troops to sites designated under the October deal where they will be disarmed or integrated into government forces.

Eastern Sudan has the nation's largest gold mine and the only port. Sudan's oil pipeline also runs there carrying 500,000 barrels a day output.

Like insurgents in Sudan's south and west, the Front charged the central government with neglecting their area.

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