Lithuania’s foreign minister steps down

Article reports that Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas resigned on the 21 January 2010 amid a dispute over the Baltic country’s hosting of secret CIA prisons that may have been used to interrogate terror suspects.

Mr Usackas had continued to insist that no prisoners were held on Lithuanian soil even after a parliamentary investigation concluded in December 2009 that two CIA facilities were set up by the staunch US ally.