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"Mr President, we abstained on the joint resolution on the covert transport of prisoners suspected of Islamist terrorism by the CIA. Without wishing to take a position on the facts, we feel that, whilst protests must be raised against such practices, assuming they have indeed occurred, those protests should come from the governments of the Member States, some of which are allies of the United States.
However, we also feel, and I would like to state this quite clearly, that this situation is not right. The law exists, and it also protects those who break it in the most shameless way, by which I mean terrorists. It is completely contrary to our traditions for people to be detained with no access to the outside world and no opportunity to defend themselves.
One of two things is true: either those detained by the United States are considered to be prisoners of war and have to be treated as such, for example receiving regular visits from the Red Cross and being freed at the end of hostilities – I am thinking in particular of the prisoners of war captured in Afghanistan – or they are considered to be criminals under ordinary law by virtue of the actions of which they are accused and can therefore be defended by lawyers, have the opportunity to defend themselves and be told the charges against them. That is the cornerstone of our civilisation. We must not let terrorism destroy our basic values!"@en1
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