Romania's senate committee found no evidence that the country hosted secret detention centres or was used as a stopover point for CIA transfers of terrorist suspects, its chief said today.
Romanian senator Norica Nicolai
This month Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty said more than 20 mostly European countries, including Ireland, colluded in a "global spider's web" of the US Central Intelligence Agency stretching from Asia to Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Marty's report said Romania and Poland, staunch allies of the United States, ran covert detention facilities for the CIA, while other countries were used as stopover or staging points.
The US challenged the report's credibility.
Romanian officials have in the past denied that Romania hosted secret CIA prisons.
"The investigation made by the committee ... showed there is not a single facility which could have been used as a detention centre," senator Norica Nicolai told a news conference.
She also said the committee investigated all flights between 2001 and 2006, which landed and took off from the European Union candidate's five airports, but found no irregularities which point to undercover transfers of terrorist suspects.
"None of these flights showed conditions which could indicate suspicions about illegal transport," Ms Nicolai said.