In January, the chief of the Bosnian intelligence and security agency whose acronym is OSA sent a letter to the Council of Europe, which had already launched an investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe, to inform that European organisation that there was no confirmation of reports that Americans had been conducting secret operation on Bosnian soil.
We have no knowledge of any secret centres or of Bosnian territory being used for the transport of prisoners, and neither we have any knowledge of foreign nationals having been abducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the OSA chief Almir Dzuvo wrote in January.
Dzuvo confirmed that OSA was cooperating with many similar agencies from abroad, including CIA. This cooperation is aimed at the exchange of data in efforts to counter terrorism.
The report on Dzuvo's letter to the Council of Europe was published since two days ago the spokesman for this oldest European organisation, Terry Davis, openly criticised five European countries, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, for their alleged failure to fill a questionnaire, which CoE special rapporteur, Dick Marty, in charge of probing the alleged existence of CIA prisons in Europe, sent them.
In addition to Bosnia, the other countries concerned are Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, San Marino and Georgia.
Findings of this investigation and information offered by Council of Europe member-states on the matter are expected to be published on 1 March.
Mr Marty began his investigation in November and presented his interim report to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in late January.
The prisons story broke in early November, when the Washington Post newspaper said the CIA had been running facilities in Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Thailand.