FARC rebels said on Friday night, they were holding a U.S. soldier captured on June 20, but is willing to release him for humanitarian commission, they pursue peace talks with the government.
FARC ", or FARC, said on its website that it has caused the soldiers identified as Kevin Scott Sutay, and in the southern jungle region, describing him as one of mine from New York who had experts in Afghanistan.
"Although we must keep Kevin Scott rights as prisoners of war, we have taken the political decision to release him in Havana with the Colombian government is promoting the spirit of the six-party talks," the statement said.
It refers to since last November in the Cuban capital ongoing peace talks to end five decades of conflict.
The United States believes the FARC a terrorist organization, to help the Colombian government in the military offensive, in the past decade, driven by the rebels to remote regions and reduce their number.
The guerrilla groups called for the formation of a committee to assist the release of the soldiers, led by former Colombian senator Red Cross and the International Committee of the Sant'Egidio religious community representatives.
FARC said Sutay across Mexico and some Central American countries into the Columbia.
U.S. Embassy officials could not be immediately contacted late Friday to verify claims or clarify the case of the presence of soldiers in the country.
FARC as a communist land reform movement began in 1964, has fought the government since in what is now Latin America's longest-running insurgency.
In 2008, the FARC released three U.S. military contractors it down after their plane had imprisoned more than five years. Together they released former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt ?.
 



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