大統領 Biden 誓約（する）s to parents of American 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Austin Tice that he will work 'relentlessly' to 安全な・保証する their son's return from Syria at あわてて arranged 会合 after his mom appeared at White House 特派員s' dinner

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大統領 Joe Biden met Monday with the parents of American 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Austin Tice, who was 誘拐するd in Syria nearly 10 years ago, the White House said.

'During their 会合, the 大統領 繰り返し言うd his かかわり合い to continue to work through all 利用できる avenues to 安全な・保証する Austin's long 延滞の return to his family,' White House 圧力（をかける） 長官 Jen Psaki said in a 声明 要約するing the 会合 with Marc and Debra Tice.

She 述べるd the 遭遇（する） as an outgrowth of '多重の 会合s and conversations' between the Tice family and White House 国家の 安全 公式の／役人s.

大統領 Joe Biden met Marc (L) and Debra Tice, the parents of US 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Austin Tice on Monday. They are seen 持つ／拘留するing portraits of him during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in 2017

Austin Tice's 現在の どの辺に and health status remain 不明瞭な. It's been nearly ten years since he was last seen after going 行方不明の in Syria in 2012

Debra Tice was introduced Saturday night as 存在 in 出席 at the White House Correspond ents' 協会 Dinner, where Biden paid 尊敬の印 in his 発言／述べるs to 新聞記者／雑誌記者s who are killed, 負傷させるd, 拘留するd or go 行方不明の while covering 衝突s.

Biden also said at the event that he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 会合，会う with the Tices to speak about their son.

During Saturday night's event, WHCA 大統領，／社長 Steve Portnoy of CBC News asked Debra Tice to stand and paid 尊敬の印 to her son, a freelance reporter who worked for CBS, The Washington 地位，任命する, and McClatchy. He was kidnapped in Syria on August 14, 2012.?

'All over the world, 新聞記者／雑誌記者s are 支配するd to 刑務所，拘置所ing and 脅迫 for the use of pen pad camera and keyboard. They've been 拷問d, 殺人d, kidnapped, and we must never forget, Portnoy said.

Halfway through his speech on Saturday night, Biden said to Debra Tice: 'Mom, I'd like to 会合，会う you and Dad to talk about your son'

Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of US 新聞記者／雑誌記者 Austin Tice, who was 誘拐するd in Syria almost ten years ago are pictured together in 2018

Speaking of Austin Tice, Portnoy said: 'He should be here with us tonight. But he's been held 捕虜 in Syria since 2012. As we take 公式文書，認める of Trevor Reed's return our thoughts tonight are with Austin Tice.'

Biden, who also spoke at the event then said he would like to 会合，会う with her.?

Halfway through his speech, Biden said to Debra: 'Mom, I'd like to 会合，会う you and Dad to talk about your son.'?

'After the 大統領，／社長 made those comments, 明白に we went into 活動／戦闘 to work to 始める，決める up the 会合,' Psaki said Monday, 追加するing that the White House has 'been very closely engaged with the family.'

'Today's 会合 built on 多重の 会合s and conversations between the Tice family and the 大統領's 国家の 安全 team, which will remain in 正規の／正選手 接触する with the Tices and other families of Americans held 人質 or wrongfully 拘留するd abroad.

Debra Tice appeared at White House 特派員's 協会 dinner on Saturday (above)?

大統領 Biden 繰り返し言うd his かかわり合い to continue to work through all avai lable avenues to 安全な・保証する Austin Tice's long 延滞の return to his family?

'We 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる the bravery and candor of families 耐えるing these harrowing experiences, and we remain committed to supporting them and, most importantly, 再会させるing them with their loved ones,' she said in a 声明.

Tice, a freelance 新聞記者／雑誌記者 who is from Houston disappeared in August 2012 at a 検問所 in a contested area west of Damascus.

A ビデオ 解放（する）d weeks later showed him blindfolded and held by 武装した men and 説, 'Oh, Jesus.'?

Only one ビデオ showing him alive and he has not been heard from since. Syria has never 定評のある 持つ／拘留するing him.

In the final months of the Trump 行政, two U.S. 公式の／役人s - 含むing the 政府's 最高の，を越す 人質 交渉者, Roger Carstens - made a secret visit to Damascus to 捜し出す （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on Tice and other Americans who have disappeared in Syria.?

It was the highest-level talk in years between the U.S. and the 政府 of Syrian 大統領 Bashar Assad, though Syrian 公式の／役人s 申し込む／申し出d no meaningful （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） on Tice.

Marc and Debra Tice have pleaded with the Biden 行政 to help their son. They are pictured in an interview last August when their son would have turned 40

At the time, Syrian 公式の／役人s told CBS News??that the Syrian 政府 said no discussion could take place about U.S. 人質s as long as U.S. 軍の 軍隊s remained in Syria. 概略で 900 U.S. 軍隊／機動隊s are in Syria.?

Psaki told reporters earlier in the day that there had been 多重の 会合s between members of the Tice family and 行政 公式の／役人s in the last six months, 含むing one last week.

Debra Tice had 以前 been 批判的な of her 欠如（する） of direct White House 接近, 説 at a 国家の 圧力（をかける） Club event last December that she had not been able to get a 会合 with Biden since he became 大統領，／社長 and that he had never said Austin's 指名する 公然と.

Biden's 会合 with Marc and Debra Tice took place at the White House on Monday. The couple are pictured during a 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in December 2018

'The 障害物 I'm having is the White House,' she said then, 追加するing, 'I wonder if he's 許すd himself to forget about Austin. I don't have any 指示，表示する物 さもなければ.'

The Biden 行政 called on Syria to return Tice last year.

'We believe that it is within Bashar al-Assad's 力／強力にする to 解放する／自由な Austin,' 国務長官 Antony Blinken said in a 声明 in August 場内取引員／株価 Tice's 40th birthday.

Last week, the U.S. 安全な・保証するd the 解放（する） of Trevor Reed, a U.S. 海洋 退役軍人 拘留するd in Russia for nearly three years, as part of a 囚人 交換（する）.?

親族s of Reed and other 拘留するd Americans are 持つ／拘留するing a news 会議／協議会 近づく the White House on Wednesday to 支持する for their loved ones' 解放（する）.