France determined to wait it out until Betancourt is freed
0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008
SAN JOSE, Colombia (AFP) — France said Saturday its medical mission to help French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt, who is languishing after six years in the hands of FARC rebels, will stay put in Bogota until the guerrillas give a response.
"We had to do something. Now we're waiting for news from FARC," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told France 2 television channel, in an interview rebroadcast by Colombian media.
A French Falcon 50 airplane was on standby at Catam military airport in Bogota since Thursday, waiting to carry an international medical team to treat Betancourt, 46, should her captors allow it. She is rumored to be seriously ill and possibly near death.
The humanitarian mission, said Kouchner, "will stay put where it is," adding...
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