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"en.20051114.15.1-119"2
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"Mr President, on 2 November an article by Dana Priest positing the existence of secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe was published in the
. I should like to make two points in this respect. Such ‘secret CIA prisons’ operate outside of any judicial system. I refer not only to that implemented by international institutions, but also to the US courts, civil and military alike. This alone constitutes a violation of the fundamental democratic and liberal values upon which America, the European Union and the transatlantic alliance are founded.
There is a great deal of public opposition to secret CIA prisons and the interrogation methods used in detention centres for suspected terrorists. This attitude is shared by many Republican politicians in the USA, as evidenced by Senator John McCain’s recent initiative to abolish the use of torture or methods akin to torture in such centres.
My second point relates to the possibility that secret CIA detention centres are located in EU Member States or in countries that will join the EU in the near future. This state of affairs undermines the fundamental principles of the EU Treaties. The European Union has every right to demand that its Member States, including my own country, Poland, take these accusations seriously, that they look into the matter again and that they investigate all the circumstances surrounding the landing in Poland of a CIA-owned Boeing carrying prisoners."@en1
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