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SEOUL: A Seoul presidential envoy heading to
Afghanistan will seek an urgent meeting with President Hamid Karzai
to try to save 22 South Koreans threatened with death by their
Taliban captors, officials said Friday.
Baek Jong Chun left for Kabul on
Thursday, a day after the Taliban killed a 42-year-old pastor who
led the aid workers to the war-torn country.
“The envoy will meet with the
Afghan president at the earliest possible time,” a senior official
told AFP, asking to remain unnamed.
The Yonhap news agency said Baek,
chief presidential secretary for foreign and security affairs, was
expected to urge Kabul to be flexible in negotiations with the
Taliban.
Foreign Minister Song Min Soon
said on Thursday Seoul would make “every possible effort” to win
the release of the hostages.
President Roh Moo Hyun, facing
one of the worst crises since he came to power in February 2003,
canceled his weeklong summer vacation set for next week to deal with
the abduction.
 --AFP
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