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| Portugal Agrees to Accept Guantanamo Detainees |
| By dw-world.de |
| Published: 06/25/2009 |
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Portugal agrees to accept Guantanamo detainees After EU foreign ministers endorsed a deal with the US last week on transferring Guantanamo inmates to Europe, while stressing that the decision to accept any inmate was up to individual European governments, Portugal followed Spain and Italy's lead by announcing Saturday that it was ready to take in "two or three" detainees. "We will accept two or three prisoners. Now, it's up to us, internally, to carry out the necessary procedures to welcome them," Foreign Minister Luis Amado said after a visit to Lisbon by US Special Envoy Daniel Fried, the man charge with finding host countries for more than 200 detainees Washington has chosen not to prosecute. Amado said that the question of the ex-prisoners' status was currently being studied by the interior ministry. Seven countries have agreed to take inmates Italy announced Monday that it would accept three Guantanamo inmates, while Spain agreed in principle to take four, dependent on their cases being reviewed by the foreign ministry. Last week nine former detainees were transferred to Chad, Iraq and Bermuda, while the Pacific island nation of Palau also agreed to take in a group of 13 Chinese Uighurs. Portugal was the first country to press publicly for a coordinated European Union resettlement plan for Guantanamo prisoners back in December and is now the seventh country to take them.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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