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2006.03.02
Web posted at: 19:03 JST
- CNN/AP
ロンドン――ブレア英首相は１日、米軍が国際テロ組織アルカイダ構成員らを長期間拘束しているキューバ内のグアンタナモ米海軍基地の収容所問題に触れ、司法手続きを踏まえ、閉鎖されることを期待する、との考えを示した。英下院で質問に答えた。閉鎖を求める考えを公の場で表明したのはこれが初めてとみられる。
同首相はこれまで、グアンタナモ基地の収容所がキューバ内に位置することへの違和感を表明している。基地には現在、アフガニスタンの政権を追われたイスラム強硬派勢力タリバーンのメンバーを含め約５００人が拘束されている。大多数は訴追もされていない。
ブレア英首相はただ、質疑の中で、収容所が２００１年９月の米同時多発テロと密接に絡むことを指摘。「ニューヨークで数千人の命が奪われた最悪のテロと関係している。アフガンで拘束され、収容者に送られた人々は、米英軍の兵士を敗北させることを狙う勢力を助けている人々でもある」と語った。
収容者をめぐっては、アナン国連事務総長が最近、閉鎖の必要性を主張。ラムズフェルド米国防長官がこれに強く反発している。
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もと記事にあたるものは次のとおり。
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/03/01/blair.guantanamo.ap/index.html
Blair says he hopes Guantanamo will close
Wednesday, March 1, 2006; Posted: 9:24 a.m. EST (14:24 GMT)
LONDON, England (AP) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he hopes the Guantanamo prison camp will close, but he noted the United States had opened it in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"I hope that the judicial process can be put in place, which means that Guantanamo Bay can close," he said during his weekly question session in the House of Commons.
"However, the reason I always qualify my answer on this is as follows: This arose out of the worst terrorist act this world has ever known in which 3,000 totally innocent people lost their lives in New York," he said.
"And those people who were picked up in Afghanistan [and sent to Guantanamo] were people who were engaged in helping those reactionary forces there to defeat American and British troops."
Nearly 500 people are being held in Guantanamo, some for several years, but only a handful have been charged.
Blair repeated the assertion he has made previously that the camp in Cuba is an anomaly.
"That's why it has to end, but I'm afraid I will always when I answer questions on this draw attention to the circumstances in which it was introduced," he said.
Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrats' acting leader, had asked Blair about Guantanamo.
He also asked about what some see as an unfair disparity in the extradition rules between Britain and the United States -- an issue that has flared since the two countries signed a treaty to overhaul extradition procedures in 2003.
The prime minister responded with an angry attack on the party's criticisms of the United States.
"I just sometimes wish they would spend just a little bit of the amount of the effort they do attacking the United States on understanding why these issues of international terrorism are so important, why it is important that we actually stand with our allies" in fighting terror, he said.
Critics say it is unfair that the United States and Britain impose different legal requirements for extradition, as the U.S. Senate has not ratified a U.S.-British treaty requiring a higher burden of proof for extradition, while Blair's government has brought the treaty into force.
Blair said Britain wanted the United States to put the new rules in place but added that "we still believe it is right that we have these extradition provisions in place."
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