Brussels, 19/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday members of the EP's temporary committee into the presumed illegal activities of the CIA in Europe requested that the investigation into possible action by the US secret services in Romania should continue. After three days of meetings in Bucharest with Romanian leaders, journalists and representatives from NGOs, the president of the EP's temporary committee Carlos Coelho (EPP-ED, Portugal) indicated that “there are questions which have still not been answered”. He also said that research into the presumed illegal activities of the CIA in Romania “should continue and go deeper than was the case up to now”. Coelho explained that nothing in the Romanian Senate's report rules out the possibility that CIA flights transporting prisoners may have gone through Romania. EP rapporteur, Claudio Fava (PES, Italy) also said that there “seems to have been a lack of willingness” on the part of the Romanian authorities to shed light on what happened but that “one still cannot exclude” that US secret services operated in Romania on a clandestine basis. Mr Fava said that with regard to allegations on the existence of detention centres in Romania, “We have found no further proof, either to confirm or to deny, the original allegations”. (bc)