LONDON -- (AP) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the U.S. has not asked Britain to accept Guantánamo Bay detainees if the camp for terrorist suspects is closed.

President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to empty the U.S. military run prison camps in southeast Cuba. Several European nations have said they are considering taking inmates who cannot be returned to their own countries because of the risk of persecution.

Former U.K. Attorney-General Peter Goldsmith said last week that Britain should be prepared to take in detainees if it helps the U.S. shut the camp.

Brown said Sunday that Britain supported the closure of Guantánamo but had not yet been asked to accept inmates.

Some 250 detainees remain at the U.S.-run camps. Australia says it has been asked to accept detainees and declined.

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