(g) Ensure that investigations
into alleged CIA rendition
flights using Danish and
Greenlandic airports are
carried out in an inclusive
and transparent manner;
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A Danish documentary
broadcast on 30 January 2008
alleged that Danish and
Greenlandic airports (e.g.
Narsarsuaq) were used by the
United States of America
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) to transport prisoners as
part of its renditions
programme. An interministerial working group had
been established to investigate
these allegations.
will always be assessed in light of
Denmark’s international obligations.6
Government: Danish legislation contains
no provisions on diplomatic assurances,
and this device has not been applied by
Denmark. The white book upon which Act
No 209 of 28 May 2009 on administrative
expulsion was based states that “…it
cannot be denied, that it is possible to
apply diplomatic assurances without
violating international law, but the
possibility is limited.” The white book lists
a number of restrictions and strict
preconditions in this respect.
Government: The Governmental report on
secret CIA-Rendition flights in Denmark,
Greenland and the Faroese Islands, written
by the Inter-ministerial Working Group,
was released the 23 October 2008:
Neither the existing information on
extraordinary rendition flights, nor the
answers given by the United States of
America to questions from Denmark have
made it possible for the Working Group or
the relevant Danish authorities to
authoritatively determine whether or not
CIA flights have occurred in Danish,
Greenlandic or Faroese airspace or not.
Further it can’t be verified or substantiated
if the claim that Danish, Greenlandic and
Faroese authorities should have had or
actually did have knowledge of alleged
extra-judicial CIA activities.
Consequently, there is no basis to conclude
Source: (Besvarelse af spørgsmål nr. S 2331 stillet af folketingsmedlem Simon Emil Ammitzbøll (UFG) til ministeren for flygtninge, indvandrere
og integration den 28. Maj 2009). Brev af 9 Juni 2009.
A/HRC/13/39/Add.6
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Defence of Afghanistan and the
Ministry of Defence of
Denmark of 8 June 2005
concerning the transfer of
persons between the Danish
contingent of the International
Security Assistance Force and
the Afghan authorities.
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