KABUL (AP) – France has “done nothing” to win the release of two French journalists who were taken hostage by the Taliban more than a year ago, a spokesman for the Afghan insurgent group said Saturday.

France-3 television journalists Herve Ghesquiere and Stephane Taponier, along with their Afghan guides, were kidnapped in December 2009, in an area northeast of Kabul. They appeared in a video believed recorded about two months ago by the Taliban.
A spokesman for Taliban said Ghesquiere and Taponier were still being held by the insurgent movement, and that French government had yet to respond to their demands, which have not been publicized.
“That is why they are with us right now,” Zabiullah Mujahid told The Associated Press over the phone. “It is clear the French government has done nothing yet to cause both its citizens to be released.”
France insisted it was fully committed to securing the release of the two men.
“We will continue to mobilize all our efforts until the day they are freed,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “For a year, there have been unceasing discussions to allow our compatriots to return to their families safe and sound.”
On Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said freeing the journalists and six other French hostages around the world was an “absolute priority” of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.