2008-05-01 23:56:08 -

LONDON (AP) - The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann appealed to her kidnappers to return their daughter on the one-year anniversary of her disappearance from a Portuguese resort.
Kate and Gerry McCann began a new phase of their search for Madeleine on Thursday with the launch of an international telephone hotline that they

hope will produce new information about her whereabouts.
«If you have Madeleine, you can call this number. All we are interested in, is getting Madeleine back,» Gerry McCann urged in an interview with AP television.
«You can do this anonymously, we will guarantee that, all we want is Madeleine back. You can get out of this situation. Please, contact us,» he said.
The couple have helped produced a documentary and are conducting press and television interviews as part of a new media offensive being launched to mark the year since Madeleine disappeared from a hotel room during a family vacation in Portugal's southern Algarve region on May 3, 2007. The couple were eating at a nearby restaurant at the time.
The case drew enormous interest, first in Britain and Portugal, then around the world _ a product of the McCanns' dogged determination to keep the case in the public eye, the voraciousness of the British tabloid press and a shocking twist that saw the parents named as formal suspects in her disappearance.
«Madeleine is still missing. It's a year down the line, Madeleine is still missing,» Kate McCann told AP.

«There's no evidence to suggest that she's come to any harm. There's still good reason to think that she is out there alive ... and we need someone to help us,» she said.