Photo: An unidentifiable detainee spends time outside his cell in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, on July 6, 2005. Andres Leighton / AP fileEU Anti-Terrorism Chief: EU, U.S. Need Time On Guantanamo -- Yahoo News/Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will need time to solve the difficult issue of whether to help President Barack Obama shut the Guantanamo jail by taking in inmates, the bloc's anti-terrorism chief said on Thursday.
"President Obama said he will need a year to close Guantanamo, it shows how difficult it is," EU anti-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove told reporters.
"So we should not ask the EU to answer in 15 days, that would not be serious ... the ministers will discuss it again," he said after the bloc's foreign minister were split on this issue when they first discussed it at a meeting on Monday.
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Opinions, Commentaries, And Editorials
Closing Guantanamo -- New Statesman opinion
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