EU foreign ministers have failed to agree on an official statement on the secret CIA jails and instead allowed the Finnish EU presidency to read out a "press line" with hardly any status.
Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot, supported by his Belgian, Luxembourg and Spanish counterparts, had proposed a common EU declaration on alleged illegal activities by the CIA – the US intelligence agency - at a foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Friday (15 September).
But ministers fina...
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