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"Although the joint motion for a resolution includes certain points that we consider positive, particularly where it says that ‘the main responsibility for the whole process of closing the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and for the future of its inmates rests with the United States’, it does not clarify the terms in which we should regard the extremely serious humanitarian situation in question.
As we have emphasised previously, we oppose any agreement between countries or between the United States and the European Union on the transfer of prisoners detained in Guantánamo. That does not mean that decisions and requests freely expressed by individuals, namely for asylum in Portugal, should not be considered within a framework of respect for national sovereignty, for the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and for international law.
The resolution, however:
fails to denounce the fact that the detention and illegal transport of citizens have not been questioned by the new US Administration; and
completely ignores the need to discover the whole truth about the violations of international law and human rights committed as part of the so-called ‘war on terror’, including the responsibilities of the governments of several EU countries regarding the use of their countries’ air space and territory for the rendition and transport of illegally detained prisoners."@en1
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