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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9914

5 June 2009
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha council
EU prepared to take in former Guantanamo detainees

Luxembourg, 04/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 4 June, EU ministers for home affairs reached an agreement on the creation of an information exchange mechanism on possibly taking former detainees into a member state. This is the first concrete step to develop an official European response to US requests to take in former Guantanamo detainees declared as “releasable”. Martin Pecina, the Czech home affairs minister affirmed that, “we have created a technical framework to enable...

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