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"Mr President, I endorse this report. It is a courageous report, which condemns practices that are an insult to human rights. Few European countries have been spared. What about Belgium?
Have CIA planes flown over its airspace with prisoners on board? The Belgian investigation reached some negative conclusions but acknowledged that the authorities did not have a mandate to monitor air passengers in transit. Doubts will therefore always persist, as they will in other countries.
The committee of the Belgian Senate described in detail the incidents that initially took place in its investigation, not least the reservations expressed by the secret services. The President of the Senate, Anne-Marie Lizin, did not hide this, when she came to give evidence in the European Parliament.
In June 2006, the conclusions of the investigation were voted on in the Senate and made public. All that might therefore be said of Belgium is that it is a complicated country, that the Flemish and Walloons would be better off getting on with each other and that we do stupid things on the television. But not that it is not a great democracy that values transparency. We have put our own house in order, and I hope that the report at least acknowledges this."@en1
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