Mr. Speaker, the Geneva convention provides that the country holding the prisoners must determine whether or not they are prisoners of war. That is what the Americans are now doing.
There was confusion last week when a statement was interpreted as meaning that they were not going to respect the Geneva convention.
But if the member reads the text of the statement made last week by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, she will understand that the Americans have clearly decided to respect the Geneva convention. We are currently asking them to be even clearer.