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Obama finds Pacific solution for Gitmo detainees The remote Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to a United States request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre on Cuba. Palau President Johnson Toribiong said the Administration of President Barack Obama made the request last week and that his country was “honoured and proud” to resettle the detainees from China’s Uighur minority as a humanitarian gesture. His archipelago, with a population of about 20,000, would accept up to 17 of the detainees subject to periodic review, Toribiong said.

Obama finds Pacific solution for Gitmo detainees

The remote Pacific island nation of Palau has agreed to a United States request to temporarily resettle up to 17 Chinese Muslims now held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre on Cuba.

Palau President Johnson Toribiong said the Administration of President Barack Obama made the request last week and that his country was “honoured and proud” to resettle the detainees from China’s Uighur minority as a humanitarian gesture.

His archipelago, with a population of about 20,000, would accept up to 17 of the detainees subject to periodic review, Toribiong said.



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June 10, 2009, 12:07pm