Solana faces EP committee investigating CIA activity
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Brussels, May 2, IRNA
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EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana will face in Brussels Tuesday afternoon the European Parliament's temporary committee on the use of EU member states by the US secret service (CIA) for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners.
Solana will be quizzed over what knowledge he had of any EU/US agreement permitting the illegal rendition flights.
Last week, an interim report by the EP committee found that the CIA carried out as many as 1,000 secret flights through Europe since the 9/11 attacks.
The report also said that the CIA kidnapped terror suspects from European countries and took them away to some Middle East countries or to the US detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba for torture.
The EP report shows the gulf between European public opinion and EU officials.
The EP is the only elected institution in the European Union and its views are a barometer for public opinion in the 25-member European bloc.
EU governments and officials are either denying that CIA rendition flights took place or that it was trying to downplay the whole issue.
The Strasbourg-based Council of Europe in a recent report also said that illegal CIA rendition flights had taken place in Europe.
For his part, EU anti-terror coordinator Gijs de Vries has denied the reports of illegal CIA activities in Europe.
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