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Wednesday 01 Jul 2015 - 15:41 Makkah mean time-14-9-1436
Guantanamo prison (Google image)
Washington (IINA) – A newly appointed special envoy to lead the Obama administration’s efforts to close the Guantanamo prison said he saw a window of opportunity that could substantially reduce the detainee population there in coming months, Reuters reported.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday named attorney Lee Wolosky, who served in the National Security Council under the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, to a post considered crucial to meeting President Barack Obama’s long-standing promise to shut the internationally condemned jail at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
The appointment marked the latest step in Obama’s slow push to close the detention center where terrorism suspects rounded up overseas after the September 11 attacks have been held for years, mostly without charges or trial.
Wolosky replaces Clifford Sloan, who stepped down at the end of 2014 after 18 months in the job. He will be the State Department’s point man to negotiate the repatriation of Guantanamo prisoners or their transfers to other countries.
Obama promised to shut Guantanamo prison when he took office in 2009, citing the damage it inflicted on America's image around the world. He has often renewed his pledge, but lawmakers have restricted his ability to transfer prisoners and have barred him from moving them to the U.S. mainland.
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