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07-26-2004, 01:56 PM
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Bulgarian riot police guards the Lybian embassy in Sofia following Tripoli's sentencing to death of five Bulgarian nurses over an AIDS-poisoning case
Libyan FM calls on Sofia to negotiate for condemned nurses (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/libya_bulgaria_aids)
5 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Foreign Minister Abdelrahman Shalgham called for Sofia to negotiate with victims' families on behalf of five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death by a Libyan court over an AIDS-poisoning case.
The nurses and a Palestinian doctor were accused of deliberately injecting the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS into more than 400 children in a paediatric hospital in the northern Libyan city of Benghazi.
Forty-three of the children have since died, while the six accused were sentenced on May 6 to death by firing squad.
"We propose to the Bulgarians to negotiate with the victims' families, and if the families agree to negotiate, then we can get closer to a settlement," Shalgham told a press conference.
The foreign minister declined to elaborate on what form a settlement could take but said that "the justice system would decide", while Libyan officials have been raising the possibility of payment of compensation to the families.
The European Union could also play a role "by taking charge of the treatment of the sick children either in Europe or by building them a special hospital in Benghazi", Shalgham said.
At the end of their trial, the nurses and doctor were already ordered to pay a total of one million dollars (827,000 euros) in compensation to the families of the victims.
extortion?
Bulgarian riot police guards the Lybian embassy in Sofia following Tripoli's sentencing to death of five Bulgarian nurses over an AIDS-poisoning case
Libyan FM calls on Sofia to negotiate for condemned nurses (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/libya_bulgaria_aids)
5 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo!
TRIPOLI (AFP) - Foreign Minister Abdelrahman Shalgham called for Sofia to negotiate with victims' families on behalf of five Bulgarian nurses condemned to death by a Libyan court over an AIDS-poisoning case.
The nurses and a Palestinian doctor were accused of deliberately injecting the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS into more than 400 children in a paediatric hospital in the northern Libyan city of Benghazi.
Forty-three of the children have since died, while the six accused were sentenced on May 6 to death by firing squad.
"We propose to the Bulgarians to negotiate with the victims' families, and if the families agree to negotiate, then we can get closer to a settlement," Shalgham told a press conference.
The foreign minister declined to elaborate on what form a settlement could take but said that "the justice system would decide", while Libyan officials have been raising the possibility of payment of compensation to the families.
The European Union could also play a role "by taking charge of the treatment of the sick children either in Europe or by building them a special hospital in Benghazi", Shalgham said.
At the end of their trial, the nurses and doctor were already ordered to pay a total of one million dollars (827,000 euros) in compensation to the families of the victims.
extortion?