European Diplomats Call for Guantanamo Closure
by Deutsche Welle

The British, French and German ambassadors to Washington called for the US to close its Guantánamo "war on terror" prison camp, and the French envoy called it "an embarrassment."

Three key European ambassadors stepped up pressure on US authorities over the weekend, after a report by UN human rights experts called for the camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba to be shut as soon as possible.

"The sooner it is closed the better it will be for the image of the United States, not only as a military and political (power) but also as a moral leader in the world," German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger said.

France's envoy, Jean-David Levitte, told CNN television that "Guantánamo is an embarrassment, and so it has to be solved one way or the other."


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