There were no CIA detention centers on Romania's territory, a senior Romanian lawmaker who led the country's investigation into the alleged CIA secret prisons in eastern Europe said on Tuesday.

Senator Norica Nicolai issued a statement after meeting with members of a delegation comprising European Union lawmakers investigating the allegations.

The delegation, made up of members of a European Parliament committee, arrived Monday for a three-day visit.

"We had very clear discussions about a series of airplanes ... which are suspected of being operated by the CIA and which are also suspected of carrying CIA detainees," the senator said in the statement.

Nicolai said a review of documents from Eurocontrol, the European air traffic control agency, showed that "no passengers got off the planes onto Romanian soil and no foreign people from Romania entered the planes."

She made it clear that the conclusion drawn by the commission of the Bucharest Parliament was that there was no such detention centers operated by the CIA in Romania.

Nicolai led a Romanian parliamentary investigation that reported in June that the CIA did not operate any prisons in Romania. A final report is to be released in January.

The EU assembly's investigation, which will run until January, has yielded an interim report that says the CIA or other U.S. services have been directly responsible for the abduction and detention of terror suspects in Europe.

Source: Xinhua