Two Venezuelan choppers bearing the logo of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Wednesday departed from San José del Guaviare bound for some place in the Colombian jungle, where the rebel Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) are to deliver four former Colombian politicians to the delegates of President Hugo Chávez.

The aircraft departed at 10:40 am (15.40GMT) from Captain Jorge Enrique González Torres Airport, in Guaviare Department, some 280 kilometers southeast Bogota, AP reporters outside the airport informed.

The Colombian authorities said that once they pick up former lawmakers Gloria Polanco de Lozada and Orlando Beltrán Cuellar, and former senators Luis Eladio Pérez and Jorge Gechem, the helicopters are to return to Venezuela.

Radio Nacional de Venezuela in Caracas said that the choppers were bound for the south of Colombia, "where the group to be released has been reportedly escorted up to the district La Paz, El Retorno, in Guaviare Department, by 60 FARC troops.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Ramón Rodríguez Chacín, four delegates of the ICRC and Colombian opposition senator Piedad Córdoba are on board of the two helicopters.

The delegation met at the airport with Colombian High Commissioner for Peace Luis Carlos Restrepo to refine the details of the operation, which Venezuelan official media branded as "Path to Peace."