BUCHAREST, Romania: Romanian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a report denying that Romania permitted CIA secret prisons in the country or that it allowed flights by the American intelligence agency that carried terrorism suspects.
The report, adopted by a vote of 56 to 6, was drafted by a special parliamentary committee.
The European Union's executive commission has accused Romania of dodging its request to clarify its involvement in "extraordinary rendition" — the beyond-the-law transfer of U.S. terror suspects from country to country by the CIA. Romania joined the EU last year.
However, Sen. Mihail Popescu of the Social Democratic Party said that, while nobody can completely deny that some planes may have transported CIA detainees, Romania did not facilitate such practices.
