Kurt spoke to CNN by telephone in northern Iraq, where he was traveling with the released hostages to the Turkish border.
"We hope that both public and private organizations will work to ensure that the released hostages, as well as their families, receive all the necessary support and assistance they will require both immediately and longer term as they recover from the trauma and deprivation that they have suffered since being kidnapped, " Swift said.
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The four released hostages - Mr Lemacon's wife Chloe, their three-year-old son Colin, and two other adults - are due to arrive in Paris on Sunday, he said.
One of the kidnappers told Reuters news agency they released the hostages because their health was deteriorating.
Uribe withdrew the authorization after some negotiators complained publicly that Colombian military aircraft flying over the area where the hostages were released jeopardized the process.
The hostages were released in January 1981 under a set of agreements, the Algiers Accords, which stipulated that the hostages could not sue Iran for damages.
La Stampa says Mr Berlusconi has dispatched his diplomatic adviser Gianni Castellaneta to Iraq to co-ordinate efforts to have the other hostages released.
The hostages were released a day after Egyptian authorities intervened, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said.
When she joined Radio 4's World at One and PM programmes, she became the Editor of the Day but also produced special one-off programmes for Radio 4, for example on the day the Beirut hostages were released.
After some hours, the French foreign ministry said in a statement that it formally "denied the information that the French hostages had been released".
Jara's release was delayed for a day after complications arose Monday concerning flights by Colombian military planes over the area where hostages were released Sunday.
Suitable, considering so far this year a total of 346 attacks have been reported worldwide and Somali pirates currently hold 277 hostages according to figures released by the International Maritime Bureau.
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The operation to free hostages has now been going on for more than 36 hours, with few details being released by the Algerian authorities.
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In a side note, Serb forces have released the Dutch peacekeepers they captured in Srebrenica, freeing the last nine hostages this morning.
Three more hostages were released and technicians did their best to fix the plane, but they later told journalists it was barely fit to fly.
At the end of November, Colombian officials released newly seized videos of FARC-held hostages, including images of Ms. Betancourt and three U.S. defense contractors.
According to the U.N. news website, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released a statement thanking the government of Qatar for its role in the safe release of the hostages.
In 1981, in Syria, over 140 hostages aboard a Pakistan Airways plane, hijacked by the militant Al Zulfiqar organization, were released after 13 days.
Before the ANI report on Tuesday, the French foreign ministry released a statement quoting Hollande as saying there are no "financial discussions" ongoing to gain the release of French hostages in various countries.
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