Peru hostage crisis talks to continue

LIMA - Two mediators in Peru's 82 day hostage crisis met Marxist guerrillas in the Japanese ambassador's residence yesterday …

LIMA - Two mediators in Peru's 82 day hostage crisis met Marxist guerrillas in the Japanese ambassador's residence yesterday to try to get stalled negotiations to end the impasse back on track.

Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani and Canadian envoy, Mr Anthony Vincent, both members of a three man gunrantors commission, spent about two hours in the ambassador's mansion. They said discussions would continue today.

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