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Monday, 06 April 2009
French President Sarkozy talks with US President Obama
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has just welcomed US President Barack Obama to  France and the two leaders have been talking about the American Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

President Sarkozy is reported to have offered to take a prisoner from Guantanamo Bay so as to help the Americans close the place down.

ObamaAn Algerian prisoner is being put forward for transfer to France.

America has been on the lookout for other countries to take some of the prisoners and President Obama has promised to close the camp within a year's time.

However, there are over 200 men imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay, and the majority of these have been kept captive there for many years without trial.

A lot of these prisoners cannot be sent to their home countries because they would be in potential danger.

Albania is the only country to have so far accepted any of these prisoners, but other countries including Portugal and Sweden have agreed to do so as well.

AFP news agency has reported that two Algerian nationals were given release clearance last November by an American judge who ruled that they had been imprisoned wrongly.

The men were arrested in Bosnia back in 2001 and have been at Guantanamo Bay since then and it is thoughtthat it is one of these who will be accepted in France.


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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 08 April 2009 )
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