Washington: The Obama administration still has time to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison before the president leaves office, the White House said, adding that it is continuing to work on transferring detainees from the centre.
The United States is working to reach agreement with countries around the globe to transfer 53 eligible Guantanamo prisoners from the facility in Cuba, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, adding that some transfers would take place by the end of the year.
"Absolutely it’s still possible. It’s still something that we are working very hard to accomplish," Earnest said.
In 2009 Obama issued an executive order to close the camp, prompting a furious Congress to pass rules that made the transfer of detainees to US soil all but impossible.
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