EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU has welcomed US president George W. Bush's statements on ending the Guantanamo prison camp, with the Austrian chancellor saying after Wednesday's bilateral summit that it is "grotesque" to claim that the US is harmful to world peace.
Speaking to journalists following the talks at the EU-US summit in Vienna on Wednesday (21 June), Mr Bush confirmed he shared a "desire" with his European counterparts for getting rid of the controversial detention centre in Cuba.
"I'd like to end Guantanamo. I'd like it to be over with," he said, adding that the US authorities are planning to send some of over 400 inmates currently held there back to their home countries, while others should be tried by the US courts because they were "cold-blooded killers."
Europe has on numerous occasions called for the closure of the prison camp – referring to it as an "anomaly" - as the prisoners are being denied a trial, with some reports saying they have been tortured.
Wolfgang Schussel, the chancellor of Austria which currently holds the six-month EU presidency, said Mr Bush was well aware of the European concerns and had opened the debate on the issue himself at the summit, "without waiting for us to raise it."
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