From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 10:43:47 EST
RELATIVES SEEK TO NEGOTIATE RELEASE OF SPANIARDS ABDUCTED IN
GEORGIA
Georgian Interior Minister Kakha Targamadze told
journalists in Tbilisi on 11 January that the families of the
two Spanish businessmen kidnapped east of Tbilisi in late
November are conducting negotiations in Russia on securing
their release, Interfax and Caucasus Press reported. Targamadze complained
that those talks "have seriously harmed the search" for the
two hostages. Also on 11 January, Georgian National Security
Minister Kutateladze said he cannot definitively confirm that
the two Spaniards are being held in the Pankisi gorge in
north-eastern Georgia. LF
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