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RPT-Korean team to talk to Taliban over hostages
21 Jul 2007 12:29:09 GMT
Source: Reuters
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KABUL, July 21 (Reuters) - A Korean government team plans to visit Afghanistan for talks with the Taliban who are holding 23 of its nationals, a Korean embassy official said on Saturday, hours after a Taliban spokesman said the group had killed two German hostages.

The delegation is expected to arrive on Sunday and hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban to try to find an "understanding" to free the Korean Christians, the official told Reuters.

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A South Korean man reads a newspaper showing a picture of kidnapped Koreans during a candle light vigil demanding the safe return of the hostages and the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, in central Seoul July 26, 2007. The Taliban have not killed the remaining 22 South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage in Afghanistan despite a deadline passing, a Taliban spokesman said on Thursday.


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