Reply #10: Colombia accepts hostage release plan

[Judi Lynn]

Colombia accepts hostage release plan
Dec 26, 2007, 21:08 GMT
(Deutsche Presse-Agentur)

Bogota - The government of Colombia on Wednesday agreed to a humanitarian operation that would see three high profile hostages released by left-wing rebels - a plan mediated and proposed by the government of Venezuela.

The government delegated Colombian Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo to be its representative at the handover, Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo said at a televised news conference.

Venezuela would send helicopters into Colombian territory to release the three hostages held by the country's largest terrorist group, the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Intense negotiations have been ongoing for months, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mediating with FARC, who have been holding hundreds of hostages, including high profile politicians and police officials, some of them for years.

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