A White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said that the administration is in the "final stages" of drafting a plan to close the US military prison Guantanamo Bay.
According to BBC, Earnest said the closure of the Cuban detention camp was a national security interest.
The closure was one of the first directives ordered by the US President Barack Obama two months after he was elected in 2008.
The US has slowly been sending prisoners back to their home countries or to third countries, a process that needs to continue if the facility is to shut, said Earnest.