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The EU text says covert prisons are "not in conformity with international law" (Photo: Wikipedia)

EU ministers fail to adopt official text on CIA camps

by Mark Beunderman, Brussels,

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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The EU text says covert prisons are "not in conformity with international law" (Photo: Wikipedia)

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