flights using Danish and Greenlandic airports are carried out in an inclusive and transparent manner. 22 Situation during visit in 2008 alleged that Danish and Greenlandic airports (e.g. Narsarsuaq) were used by the CIA to transport prisoners as part of its renditions programme. An inter-ministerial working group had been established to investigate these allegations. Information received in the reporting Steps taken in previous years and (See A/HRC/13/39/Add.6; A/HRC/16/52/Add.2A) period Greenland and the Faroese Islands, written alleged CIA rendition flights was not by the Inter-ministerial Working Group, was carried out with the inclusion of released the 23 October 2008. independent experts and civil society to ensure a fully inclusive and transparent There is no basis to conclude that the process. Government bears (co-)responsibility for illegal activities of the CIA or other foreign It is alleged that Wikileaks has authorities. The existing Danish control reportedly made a number of documents regimes are adequate to ensure that the public underlining the double sided relevant authorities have the necessary dispositions of the Danish Government possibilities to intervene should the into the alleged CIA rendition flights. authorities receive concrete knowledge of Reportedly, in a released any rendition flight heading towards or correspondence between the American being in Danish, Greenlandic or Faroese embassy in Denmark and the US State airspace.22 Department, the Danish Government has reportedly stressed the importance of In connection with the publication of the resolving the issue on the rendition report on Secret CIA-flights in Denmark, flights in the most agreeable manner, Greenland and Faroe Islands on the 23 Oct. while the Government in the Danish 08, the Government endorsed the media has reportedly portrayed anger recommendations made by the Interand frustration over not being able to get ministerial Working Group and immediately straight answer from the American 23 initiated the implementation process of the authorities on the rendition flights. recommendations. On 1 July 2011, Denmark rejected the In accordance with the recommendations, UPR recommendation to assess the the Government informed the US of the flights that were conducted over Danish Danish position and law in relation to territory and landings that took place in renditions, through a note verbal of 27 Oct. the context of the CIA extradition 08. In the note, it strongly condemned the program. use of extraordinary renditions. Just prior to the publication of the report the Danish Reportedly, during the recent election Government received on the 22 October a campaign in Denmark, the three future guarantee from the US underlining opposition parties ensured that they that no rendition will take place through the would conduct an open and transparent airspace or territory of the Kingdom of investigation into the use of Danish The report is available in Danish (English Summary at page 99) at http://www.um.dk/NR/rdonlyres/7325C86F-F9DA-4329-8B16B3F135BDC24F/0/CIA.pdf (20.08.2009). 23 http://www.demotix.com/news/553359/rendition-flights-debate-wikileaks A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 38 Recommendations (A/HRC/10/44/Add.2)