Brussels, 03/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - The United States will be looking to the European Union to create a supportive context in which to facilitate bilateral arrangements with EU member states that wish to accept detainees for resettlement. European Commissioner Jacques Barrot said on Friday 3 April: “I welcome the US authorities' willingness to hand over to the EU all information that would be needed to analyse, case by case, the specific situation of persons currently detained”. In a letter, the United States says it expects the EU to create a framework for facilitating bilateral arrangements with the member states willing to take detainees in. To achieve this, Washington envisages the adoption by June at the latest of a common position affirming that the EU supports the decision to close Guantanamo and encouraging member states to collaborate with the United States in taking in detainees that cannot return to their own countries. This request will be discussed on Monday by the EU interior ministers. Washington has undertaken to provide the EU with a list of persons that can be transferred and who cannot return to their home countries, out of the 240 detainees. Additional information on some detainees will be forwarded to the countries that so wish. France has been asked to take in two Algerian nationals acquitted by US justice. (B.C./transl.jl)