Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

No, I did not seek those assurances because I have accepted those I have received to date. I would not regard it as very diplomatic to question, at the first meeting with a new US President, the assurances I have received. It would not be very sensible or judicious. Given that the US Administration is closing Guantanamo and that the question of rendition thereto arose internationally in the first place, it would not be right of me to raise the matter. There is no necessity for me to do so.

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