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To: NickSE who wrote (109388)	8/2/2003 11:51:19 AM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (2) of 281500

A unilateral French military operation without UN approval? France says sorry for rescue bid telegraph.co.uk France's foreign minister has apologised to Brazil over a botched mission to the Amazon to bring home a French hostage. Last month Dominique de Villepin secretly ordered a military transport plane to the Brazilian Amazon after receiving a tip that a friend, the Franco-Colombian Green politician Ingrid Betancourt, held for 17 months by Colombian rebels near the border, would be freed. The mission ended in fiasco and the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) denied it intended to free her. Brazil and Colombia protested that they were not informed of the operation. Tension between France and Brazil rose on Thursday when Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes, the Brazilian deputy foreign minister, said M de Villepin had given information which proved false. One deputy demanded the expulsion of French diplomats, saying they "would do better not to treat us like one of their African colonies". In a written statement, M de Villepin offered his apology to his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, who accepted.

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