Minister did not want Guantnamo-press. It appears in a document AP has granted access to this page alerts via Wikileaks. The report is written after the first meeting between the Minister and Whitney in January 2006.
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According to the American ambassador underlined Minister at the meeting that the Norwegian government is not prepared in any confrontation with the United States prison camp, despite the fact, eve isk for sale, that both the government partner SV and local groups of Amnesty International had urged government to put pressure on the United States to close the camp.
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- Despite the fact that this is a hot political issue in Norway, stressed the Foreign Minister that the Norwegian government will not, mortal gold, require that the camp is closed, the ambassador writes in his report back to the U.S. authorities.
Nearly 800 detainees have been held at Guantanamo, most without charge or trial. In 2009 ordered U.S. President Barack Obama that the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should be closed.
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Demanded closure
Minister should have added that it would be in America's own interest, darkfall powerleveling, to treat the prisoners at Guantanamo in line with the Geneva Convention.
- This report is written at an early stage, when it was not appropriate to require the closure of Guantnamo. But Norway demanded that the United States followed the basic human rights and legal principles, and that this applied to all U.S. prisons, "said Ragnhild Imerslund press spokesperson at the Foreign Ministry.
- Later, when it became clear that the conditions at Guantanamo were in default, was the Norwegian policy to demand that Guantanamo should close, says Imerslund to VG.
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(Journalist Johannes Wahlstrm has also contributed to it.)