Reply #2: Colombian Guerrillas Add Hostage to Planned Release (Correct) [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Colombian Guerrillas Add Hostage to Planned Release (Correct)

By Matthew Walter

(Corrects story originally published Feb. 20 to change country in which FARC operates in first paragraph.)

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Colombia's biggest guerrilla group offered to release another hostage along with the three Colombian lawmakers scheduled to be set free, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will release the fourth hostage ``in the coming days,'' along with prisoners Gloria Polanco, Eladio Perez and Orlando Beltran, Kouchner said today after meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has been negotiating with the guerrillas.

Kouchner, who declined to identify the fourth hostage, said it was another lawmaker, according to an e-mailed statement from Venezuela's information ministry. Chavez will provide more details, the foreign minister said.

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