BRUSSELS, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot has said the comments by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about secret CIA flights and detention centers for terrorist suspects outside the United States were "unsatisfactory," Dutch news agency ANP reported Tuesday.

    Rice is due to meet with foreign ministers of NATO member states in Brussels on Thursday.

    According to ANP reports, Bot said in the Dutch Parliament that Rice will have to give more clarity about the controversy during the ministerial meeting.

    The US Secretary of State repeated her assertions while in Germany on Tuesday that the United States does not torture suspects under any circumstances.

    Bot told MPs that "rendition" was not kidnapping as some critics claimed. He said it was a speedy process of extraditing suspects to the US. Normal extraditions through the courts can last for years, he said.

    The Dutch foreign minister was unable to give any information on the CIA flights that made stopovers in the Netherlands.

    NOS, the national news service in the Netherlands, reported that the CIA regularly made use of Dutch airports for secret flights. The claim was based on an investigation by broadcaster VPRO. It is unknown if prisoners were aboard these flights.

    For a month, the United States has been on the defensive, refusing to deny or confirm media reports of the CIA prisons.

    The European Union (EU) has threatened to sanction any EU member countries which had such prisons on their territories. Enditem