EU Commissioner thanks Abbas for role in freeing Spanish aid worker
AFP
Date: 10-31-06
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has thanked Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas for his role in securing the release of kidnapped Spanish aid worker Roberto Vila.The phone call followed the release Monday of Vila, 34, who works for the media department of the Spanish aid group Cooperation Assembly for Peace.
Ferrero-Waldner "thanked President Abbas and the Palestinian security forces for their part in the swift liberation of Mr Villa (sic), who works on a European Commission-funded project in Gaza which supports young handicapped Palestinians," the European Union's executive arm said in a statment.
Vila was snatched earlier in the day by four armed men from a car near the town of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza and bundled into a yellow car.
There was little information on his release.
His seizure was the latest in a string of abductions targeting foreigners in the increasingly lawless Palestinian territory.
The gunmen who kidnapped him released Vila's French female colleague and two Palestinian assistants who had also been in the car with him.
No claim of responsibility for the abduction was made.
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