"The release of Rudolf Cordes, the last German hostage held in Lebanon, had been negotiated over several months with Iranian officials, and was finally obtained at a meeting Aug. 24 with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mohammed Javad Larijani," Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher announced today."No conditions of any sort were accepted or fulfilled and none were set. I would like to make that quite clear," Genscher added.Cordes' kidnappers told Western news agencies that they were setting him free after "sincere appeals from Syria and Iran." Read full story
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