Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez would meet Tuesday with the relatives of US and Colombian hostages held by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), in addition to senior representatives of the Colombian Catholic Church, as part of his role as middleman looking for a humanitarian swap.

The meeting would be attended by 12 delegates of the relatives of the US hostages, two representatives of imprisoned guerrillas, the president of the Colombian Bishops' Conference, Monsignor Luis Augusto Castro and Father Darío Echeverri, member of the aid committee for the humanitarian swap, AFP reported.

Colombian Deputy Piedad Córdoba, the middlewoman seeking to get 45 hostages for 500 imprisoned guerrillas, will be present also, said one of her assistants.