Madrid - Spain is willing to take "a limited number" of inmates from the US prison camp in Guantanamo, Cuba, after its closure, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos was Friday quoted as saying.

Press reports quoted comments Moratinos made Thursday in Rome.

Spain was willing to "help and cooperate," but would study eventual US requests "case by case," Moratinos said.

Given that "these are such sensitive and dramatic matters, it is logical for us to maintain a certain reserve," the minister said, calling for a joint European position on the Guantanamo inmates. (dpa)