We continue to do everything we can towards the safe release of the other hostages.
In January of that year an attempt to rescue two other hostages resulted in their deaths.
He was quoted as saying he and 34 other hostages of nine different nationalities were being well treated.
The 59-year-old delivery driver, from Leicestershire, said his thoughts were now with the family members of the other hostages.
La Stampa says Mr Berlusconi has dispatched his diplomatic adviser Gianni Castellaneta to Iraq to co-ordinate efforts to have the other hostages released.
Sarkozy's "good offices will be definitive in this matter to secure the return home of Ms. Ingrid and the other hostages in an exchange, " FARC spokesman Raul Reyes told Anncol news service, which often carries rebel statements.
They arranged the passports, they arranged the flight out, they gave shelter to the hostages and they also agreed to spy for President Carter in order to help get information to the States on the conditions regarding the other hostages.
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South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon said the results of the summit were anticipated and cautioned that the country should be prepared for a protracted standoff, noting that other hostages in Afghanistan had been held an average of 35 days.
Philippine security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said a ransom was paid for Mr. Rodwell's release, as was usually the case with other hostages held by the Abu Sayyaf over the last two decades.
Six other French hostages are still being held in Mali, ANI said.
Four of them are still being held - along with three other French hostages - and it is believed they could be in the north of Mali close to where French troops are battling al-Qaeda-linked militants.
Limbert acknowledges that getting compensation from companies that violate sanctions against Iran is not ideal, but says decades of failed attempts to get direct accountability from Iran make him and other former hostages believe it is not in the cards.
Algerian forces stormed a gas facility to free foreign hostages without warning other governments, leaving leaders in a series of capitals scrambling to get information on their citizens' fates.
There have been cases in which kidnappers have instilled such fear of reprisal in their victims -- by making all pay painfully for the transgressions of one -- that the hostages wind up essentially forced to control each other.
"This feels much more like attacks staged in the past by other al Qaeda affiliates, rather than another attempt to exchange hostages for ransom, as has often been AQIM's practice, " said Andrew Lebovich, a long-time observer of AQIM currently in Senegal.
Mr. MATTHEW GUTMAN (Reporter, The Jerusalem Post): Israel often does pay to get hostages back, living or dead, and often pays exorbitant prices for it -probably prices that other countries wouldn't pay, in terms of both money and other prisoners.
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