Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos told a breakfast meeting with reporters that the inmates will not pose a security threat.

The transfers, he said, “will be done with all the legal guarantees so as to defend the security situation that our country requires.” He said the nationalities of the former prisoners would be announced when they arrive in Spain. Officials have said previously that Spain had agreed to accept one Yemeni and one Palestinian.

A Foreign Ministry official said later those two are still due to come to Spain and the government is now studying the background of other inmates at the US prison for terrorism suspects in Cuba.