Rafael Huseynov: "I proposed to discuss Azerbaijani prisoners of war at PACE Human Rights Committee"

"It was decided in the end of the meeting not to name any country in the Resolution as existence of secrete detention places in some states has not been proved yet. Besides, the investigations do not give 100 percent of results. There might be some mistakes. So, it was decided to enlarge the circle of the investigations. These states can be mentioned only after the problem is fully investigated," Huseynov said.

"Azerbaijan is not in the list. In my address to the meeting, I informed about the detention places in Nagorno Karabakh, where Azerbaijani prisoners of war are held by Armenians. I proposed this issue to be debated at the Assembly's Human Rights Committee," he said.

Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur Dick Marty today revealed what he called a global "spider's web" of CIA detentions and transfers and listed seven Council of Europe member states who could be held responsible, in varying degrees, for violations of the rights of named individuals by colluding in these operations.

APA's Europe bureau reports quoting the PACE that in a 67-page explanatory memorandum to his report, made public in Paris today at a meeting of the Assembly's Legal Affairs Committee, he said there were corroborated facts strengthening the presumption that landing points in Romania and Poland were detainee drop-off points near to secret detention centres.

"Even if proof, in the classical meaning of the term, is not as yet available, a number of coherent and converging elements indicate that such secret detention centres did indeed exist in Europe. These elements warranted further investigation," he said.

"It is now clear… that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities. Other countries ignored them knowingly, or did not want to know," he said.

Marty said he used evidence from national and international air traffic control authorities, as well as sources inside intelligence services, including in the United States, to compile a detailed picture of a global system of secret detentions and unlawful transfers – including new analysis revealing what he called "rendition circuits."

He listed seven Council of Europe member states who could be held responsible, in varying degrees, which are not always settled definitively, for violations of the rights of specific individuals: Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the United Kingdom, Italy, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Germany and Turkey. Several more colluded, actively or passively, in the detention or transfer of unknown persons, he said.

Marty's report is due to be debated by the plenary Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg June 27, 2006, APA informs.