that the Danish Government bears
responsibility or co-responsibility for
alleged illegal activities of the CIA or
other foreign authorities’ activities.
The existing Danish control regimes are
adequate to ensure that the relevant
authorities have the necessary possibilities
to intervene should the authorities receive
concrete knowledge of an extraordinary
rendition heading towards or being in
Danish, Greenlandic or Faroese airspace.7
In connection with the publication of the
report on Secret CIA-flights in Denmark,
Greenland and Faroe Islands on the 23
October 2008, the Danish Government
endorsed the recommendations made by
the Inter-ministerial Working Group and
immediately initiated the implementation
process of the recommendations.
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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)
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In accordance with the recommendations,
the Danish Government informed the US
Government of the Danish position and
law in relation to renditions, through a note
verbale dated 27 October 2008. In the
note, the Danish Government strongly
condemned the use of extraordinary
renditions defined as transport of
individuals which takes place outside the
scope of national and international law.
Further, the Danish Government stressed
that such renditions constitute a violation
of the fundamental human rights of the
detained individuals and cannot be
justified regardless of the circumstances or
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