26/01/2009 Session
“The fact that, in his very first days in office, Mr Obama called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and demanded that the United States comply with the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war gives us great hope that Europe and the United States will now be able to join forces in their traditional role of championing the very highest standards of international law,” Assembly President Lluís Maria de Puig today said at the opening of the Winter Session. “Incidentally, I have called on our member States to take in the Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of wrong-doing but cannot return to their country of origin, because their lives or physical well-being are at risk,”
he added.