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Sat 03 Mar 2007EU threatens action if sailors not releasedEU:EU foreign ministers have warned Iran to release immediately 15 British sailors it is holding hostage or face "appropriate measures" in "the near future".They "deplored" the continued arrest and called for "immediate and unconditional" release of the Royal Navy personnel, in a statement issued at a two-day informal ministerial meeting in Bremen yesterday.