Newly-freed Colombian hostage Clara Rojas had an emotional reunion Sunday with her son Emmanuel, three years after he was taken from her while she was held captive by leftist rebels, a government source told AFP.

"They have met each other. It was a very emotional moment," the official said of the meeting, which came three days after the FARC rebel group released politician Rojas after holding her nearly six years.

Rojas, who only found out her jungle-born three-year-old son was alive in a New Year's eve radio broadcast, met the toddler Sunday afternoon after flying into Bogota's military airport with her family from Caracas.

The child, whose father is a guerrilla from the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was handed over to Rojas by the Colombian Family Welfare Institute, a local government organization.

Rojas met with Emmanuel at a state-run orphanage earlier Sunday, hugging and kissing the three-year-old boy who was spirited away from her at the age of eight months.

FARC guerrillas captured Rojas -- campaign manager for French-Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt -- February 2002. She was released with another hostage on Thursday.

Emmanuel was born in April 2004, the fruit of an apparently consensual liaison between Rojas, now 44, and a guerrilla fighter.

"Emmanuel has been transferred with his mother to a special location," institute director Elvira Forero told reporters. "They had a six-hour get-to-know session today in hopes of restoring family ties."

However, Forero pointed out that legal paperwork formalizing the transfer still needed to be finished.

Outside, police had blocked off the area as hundreds of locals flocked to the orphanage in an attempt to witness the event.

The meeting Sunday capped weeks of drama that began in early December when FARC rebels announced they would release Rojas, Emmanuel and Colombian politician Consuelo Gonzalez to representatives of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

That release never materialized, and the rebels later admitted they did not have the child and that he was in the care of an orphanage in Bogota.

Forero told AFP prior to Rojas' arrival that the boy had undergone psychological preparations for the emotional reunion with his mother.

Separately, ex-hostage Consuelo Gonzalez, 57, asked Chavez to lean on FARC leaders to abandon kidnapping as a method of warfare.

Gonzalez, speaking on Chavez's weekly radio and television program "Hello Presidente," urged Chavez to help FARC leaders "understand that in a revolutionary struggle ... there should not kidnapping, because acts like those are an attack on human dignity."

Chavez agreed, and addressing the FARC, said: "You should take into account Consuelo's words, which I agree with."

Chavez on Saturday urged European and Latin American governments to stop branding Colombia's leftist guerrillas as terrorists, because they are, as he put it, "insurgent forces that have a political project".

Colombia's Uribe quickly ruled out the option.

The FARC have been fighting to overturn the Colombian government for more than 40 years and still hold some 750 hostages in their jungle hideouts.

Late Sunday, the Colombian Navy announced that FARC rebels had taken hostage six more Colombian nationals in the town of Nuqui, in the west of the country. The captives were part of a tourist group visiting the area.