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Bucharest denies PACE rapporteur's report on secret detention centres


10/06/2007

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Bucharest on Friday (June 8th) rejected a new report
by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's rapporteur, Dick
Marty, that suggests Romania hosted secret CIA detention centres from 2003
to 2005. The document, presented earlier the same day, said such centres
were also set up in Poland, under a secret deal among NATO allies reached in
October 2001.

Denying Marty's claims, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said the report failed
to marshal enough evidence to support the accusations. Former President Ion
Iliescu, named in the report as having facilitated the plan to set up
detention centres, has also issued a denial, as has the ex-head of the
Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport in Constanta, Mircea Dionisie. Poland also says
the allegations are false. (CoE website, Mediafax, Rompres, Antena 3 TV -
08/06/07)

(C) SETimes

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