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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9908

27 May 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Belgium prepared to accept Guantanamo detainees

Brussels, 26/05/2009 (Agence Europe) - Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht said on Friday 22 May that Belgium remained ready to take in more than one Guantanamo detainee once the prison there is closed. “We are ready to carefully assess whether we can accept some of these detainees in Belgium and the Americans appreciate this fact,” he said after meeting his US counterpart, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. When asked by the Belgian media during his visit to Washington, De Gucht...

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