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Talks still ongoing for Tarongoy freedom.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Byline: TJ Burgonio
FOREIGN affairs officials yesterday squelched speculations that negotiations with the captors of Robert Tarongoy in Iraq had bogged down, saying the team working for his release had lost contact with only one of the intermediaries.
Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gilberto Asuque said Team Iraq, headed by Undersecretary Rafael Seguis, has maintained contact with most of the go-betweens to the group holding Tarongoy, a Filipino accountant who had managed to sneak into Baghdad to work despite a ban by the Philippine government on its nationals going there.
"Because there are many contacts that we are reaching out to, it's expected that one of them will not be continuously returning the messages of Team Iraq in Baghdad," Asuque told reporters.
"What we really want to stress is that Team Iraq continues to communicate with all its intermediaries," he said.
Seguis, in an interview on CNN on Sunday, had said the intermediaries "have stopped talking to us since four days ago," setting off speculations that the negotiations had stalled.
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