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| Italy accepts three Guantanamo detainees: Obama |
| 2009-06-17 |
| President Barack Obama said Monday Italy had agreed to accept three detainees from the Guantanamo Bay "war on terror" camp in Cuba, after talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "I thanked the prime minister for his support of our policy in closing Guantanamo," Obama said after the two leaders met in the Oval Office. "This is not just talk, Italy has agreed to accept three specific detainees," Obama said. There were no immediate details on the identity of the detainees. Obama and Berlusconi met for talks on next month's Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations in Italy, after the European Union endorsed a deal with Washington on transferring Guantanamo inmates to Europe. The pact, agreed by EU foreign ministers, stressed that the decision to accept any inmate was one for individual European governments to take. |
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