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17 December 2014 – 00H45

Romania ‘to clear up’ allegations over CIA prisons

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© AFP/File | The lectern stands empty as reporters await the arrival CIA director John Brennan for a press conference at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia on December 11, 2014

BUCHAREST (AFP) –

Romania is “ready to clear up” allegations that the country hosted secret CIA detention centres, the foreign ministry said Tuesday — though it stressed that Bucharest had “no proof” such prisons existed.

Romanian authorities were “fully available to clear up the allegations” that Bucharest colluded with the CIA on the transfer of terrorist suspects to CIA “black sites” established for the purposes of torture, the ministry said.

The ministry emphasised in a statement that the central European country was not named in the summary of last week’s bombshell US Senate report on the CIA’s mistreatment of Al-Qaeda suspects.

In fact, however, the summary redacted the names of all foreign countries that hosted the CIA “black sites” used to intern 119 people who were captured.

But previous news reports identified the countries which had the sites as Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Thailand and Afghanistan.

The Romanian foreign ministry said an investigation had been launched with a view to finding “a solution” to the issue that “respects the principles of the rule of law and human rights”.

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