Lithuania promised to accept two Uzbek detainees from the Guantanamo detention centre back in spring 2009, documents from the WikiLeaks revel, the Russian website Russky Reporter said. The Lithuanians agreed to take in the detainees immediately after the European Union has reached a consensus on …
According to the U.S. cables published on the WikiLeaks web-site, a Lithuanian Member of Parliament urged the country’s allies to pressurise the Lithuanian President to reconsider her decision to refuse to allow a Guantanamo prisoner to be re-settled in Lithuania. “In the fall of 2009, …
Edward Lucas who covers Central and Eastern Europe for the highly respected British publication, The Economist, recently wrote. “Spend a few days in Washington D.C. and you will hear a gloomy story about the shameful abandonment of America’s most loyal allies. It goes like this. …
On July 23, the U.S. transferred a detainee from Guantanamo Bay to Latvia as part of the effort to close the controversial prison on the naval base in Cuba, the Latvian Institute informed. The U.S. Department of Defence did not identify the detainees under the …
Lithuania’s Public Television announced that Latvia agreed to host the Guantanamo detainee, who is originally from one of the Central Asian Republics. Lithuania, who promised to host a several detainees from Guantanamo, has changed its mind. The Public Television informed that the President Grybauskaite has …
