The Foreign Ministry denied today a report that Israel was negotiating separately with the terrorists holding diplomats as hostages in the Dominican Embassy in Colombia: According to a report, Brazil and Switzerland are also conducting separate negotiations with the M-19 group holding the Ambassadors. The Foreign Ministry said it was acting to free the Israeli Ambassador being held hostage in full coordination with the other countries whose diplomats are also being held in the occupied Embassy.
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