BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 2 (UPI) -- Azerbaijan has denied participation in the alleged U.S. Central inteligence Agency's program of secret prisons and rendition flights of terrorist suspects.
Trend news agency reported on May 1 that the head of the Azerbaijani delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe, Member of Parliament Samed Seyidov, said that Azerbaijan's official response about the alleged existence of CIA secret prisons on its territory has been presented to the Council of Europe Secretary General Terry Davis.
Seyidov said, "There are no secret prisons on Azerbaijani territory," adding that "information about adding Azerbaijan to the list of countries hosting CIA secret prisons has a single aim -- to harm the international image of Baku. We sent a document to the Council of Europe clearly indicating that."
During a press conference in Strasbourg last month announcing the results of analysis of the questionnaire responses received from 46 Council of Europe member states, Davis said Europe was "a happy hunting ground" for foreign intelligence agencies.
