Help offered for Gitmo inmates
2010-05-16 14:09
Colombo -The government of the Maldives has offered to take two unidentified detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.
"It's an offer on humanitarian grounds, for two prisoners of the Muslim faith who don't have formal terror charges against them," state minister for foreign affairs Ahmed Naseem told AFP by telephone from the capital Male.
Nassem, who is effectively the deputy to the Indian Ocean atoll nation's foreign minister, said some legal issues still needed to be resolved, such as the pair's status in the country.