The Obama administration has said it is seeking a two-month delay for all military trials for terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay while US Congress considers new rules for the proceedings and the White House considers trying them in US courts.
US President Barack Obama is trying to close the prison, with plans to try some of the foreign terrorism suspects in military commissions and others in federal courts in the US.
The prison at a US naval base in Cuba currently holds 226 detainees.
The military trials have been on hold since Mr Obama announced soon after taking office in January that he planned to close the prison by January 2010.
About ten cases are pending before military judges.
Meanwhile, the US official in charge of closing Guantanamo Bay appealed to European countries to look at accepting detainees who were not hardened terrorists or organised fighters.
Daniel Fried said some of the detainees, captured during the 'war on terror', should never have been held at the US camp in Cuba in the first place, describing them as 'relatively benign'.
