Portuguese Foreign Affairs Minister Jaime Gama (C) accompanied by EU Commissioners Javier Solana (L) and Christopher Patten (R) give a news conference at the end of the EU Informal Meeting held in Furnas on the St. Miguel island of Azores May 7. The European Union announced on Sunday it was sending its foreign policy chief, Javier Solana to the Philippines to express concern about the fate of mainly foreign hostages held by Moslem guerrillas.

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