Colombian government does not agree to the exchange of prisoners with the rebels

The Colombian government Monday ruled out the possibility to negotiate any prisoner exchange offers with all the rebels and demanded that all of the hostages be released unconditionally.

"The government has reaffirmed several times that this can be not an selection and keeps requesting to those organizations the immediate and unilateral release of those still held in captivity," stated Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras.

He was responding to a proposal from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to make a humanitarian exchange with all the government.

"These statements of the FARC have always to become received meticulously since no one is going to build a stage for a political role without concrete actions that demonstrate the real intentions behind releasing these individuals," he reiterated.

Lleras stated the government is just not as much as create "a platform which will doesn't bring about anything" simply because the guerrillas "has lied on the concern of humanitarian exchange."

The FARC has been raising the propsal for years in a bid to free dozens of its members jailed at residence and abroad in exchange for the return of practically two dozen police and military personnel held as hostages.

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