Uribe en visita a Europa

Uribe visita Francia

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe,left, and Ingrid Betancourt´s son Lorenzo, center, and her ex husband Fabrice Delloye, right talk to the press after a meeting at the Colombia´s ambassador residency in Paris, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008. French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has been detained in Colombia by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, since February 2002. Uribe is in Paris for talks with his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy after inviting France, Spain and Switzerland to resume their mediation role in an effort to free 44 hostages held by Marxist rebels. Uribe announced yesterday he had authorized France, Spain and Switzerland to return to their mediation efforts before a European tour starting in Paris where he will address the hostage issue with Sarkozy, who has closely followed the case of French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt.(AP Photo / Thibault Camus)