British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Sunday for the immediate release of five Britons being held hostage in Iraq.
Brown pledged that the government would do "everything in our power" to secure the freedom of four security guards and one computer expert who were kidnapped in Baghdad in May, Sky news reported.
A video of one of the men was released by the abductors recently, threatening to kill them all unless British troops withdrew from Iraq.
Brown said: "The taking of hostages is completely unjustified, wholly unacceptable and we are making it clear they will not change our policy in any way.
"I want the hostage takers to accept their responsibility, to understand the consequences of what they are doing, to make possible the immediate release of the hostages, to allow them to come home at the earliest opportunity.
"We will do everything in our power ... We are demanding the immediate release," he noted.
Brown also thanked Iraqi Premier Nouri Maliki and his government for their efforts in trying to secure the hostages' freedom.
Source:Xinhua
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