A Taliban faction has claimed responsibility of the abduction of three United Nations (UN) workers including a Filipino diplomat in the Afghan capital city Kabul, a local television reported Friday.

However, Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) media office officials told Xinhua by phone that no official statement had yet been released as of pressing time on the confirmation of that report by the ABS-CBN news channel which did not quote sources.

Angelito Nayan, a Filipino diplomat who was currently seconded to the Joint Electoral Committee connected with the UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan, was taken hostage by an armed group in Kabul on Thursday with two others of his fellow UN workers, an Irish and a Kosovan, the DFA said Thursday in a statement.

This is the first time that such an incident has taken place in the war-weary Afghan capital over the last three years, it was learned.

The Philippine government is now coordinating efforts with the UN to secure the release of the three hostages after Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assured to exert all efforts to derail the transition to democracy of the war-damaged country.

The DFA in the statement strongly condemned such acts as "pointless hindrances to the rebuilding of the Afghan nation, which has just successfully completed its first democratic election."

The DFA said it has re-activated its Crisis Management Team, which will be coordinating Philippine government actions with the Philippine Embassy in the Pakistan and with UN authorities.