Guantánamo questions hang over EU-US summit

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The EU should use Monday's (30 April) summit in Washington to urge the US to shut down Guantanamo Bay and put an end to CIA renditions, a leading NGO has said, with the murkier side of America's "war on terror" refusing to go away despite efforts to keep the agenda on trade and climate change
"The EU gains nothing by shying away from these questions, at home as well as abroad. It does not gain the respect of the United States and certainly not that of its citizens", Amnesty International Europe director Dick Oosting said, urging western democracies to respect their own "basic" rules. MORE
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