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By Iqbal Tamimi / Journalist and human rights activist 1/2/2008 Informed sources said Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is currently visiting a number of European countries, is seeking the help of European Organization to show more serious efforts to close Guantanamo prison, and release the rest of the detainees in Guantanamo including almost 100 Yemeni prisoners still detained there.
Adnan Farhan Latif, whose photograph is included with this report, is one of the Yemen national who has been at Guantanamo since 2001.
The official sources said that the meeting was held yesterday in Brussels between the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and European foreign policy coordinator Javier Solana.The spokeswoman for Solana said that the meeting dealt with developments in Yemen and the region and the European Yemeni relations. President Saleh, who is visiting Brussels within his tour to the European Union met with the European Commissioner for External Relations Benita Waldner and a number of European and Belgian parliament members. The sources said Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, met Marie Aezn decisions Organizer for Security and European cooperation on the Guantanamo detainee’s matters, and demanded more serious European efforts to close the jail, and to ensure the speedy release of the 100 Yemeni Guantanamo detainees. American officials said earlier that Yemeni detainees in Guantanamo prison represent the biggest obstacle to the closure of the jail, because the United States does not believe that the Yemeni government will take sufficient action to prevent them from returning to practice terrorism after their release. The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh demanded in a message sent to President George W. Bush to close Guantanamo jail and return of Yemeni prisoners to their country.
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