Finland has voiced support for the decision by the U.S. administration to close the facility.
The United States is still seeking countries who will accept for resettlement over 40 detainees against whom there is no evidence of terrorist activities. The European Union and the U.S. have agreed to cooperate in the issue, but each EU country will make its own independent decision whether or not to accept detainees released from Guantanamo.
At this stage, Finland has decided to seek more information about the situation of the detainees and plans for their release. President Tarja Halonen and the Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy discussed the matter on Friday, but no decision on accepting detainees has yet been made.
Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb told YLE that Finland does not have a list of conditions for the possible acceptance of detainees from Guantanamo.
"Finland's position is that we will look at each request on a case-by-case basis and we have two starting points. First of all, there is the human rights and humanitarian perspective and the second is security. Against this background it is actually impossible to draw up any kind of criteria," said Stubb.