Monday, February 05, 2007

DAR AL HARB - FRANCE: FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKS TO SEIF AL-ISLAM ON BEHALF OF BULGARIAN NURSES

France’s Foreign Minister Discussed Bulgarian Nurses’ Case with Seif al-Islam

Paris. “We expect a recent solution to the case of the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor who were sentenced to death on charges of having deliberately infected Libyan children with the HIV virus”, France’s Foreign Minister Phillip Dust-Blazi said, the online edition of the Libyan daily Libya Today reported. He expressed hope that the Libyan authorities would “show mercy”. The French Foreign Minister added that he had met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam recently. They discussed the fate of the medics, whose death sentences were confirmed on December 19, 2006. Phillip Dust-Blazi did not specify the result of the talks. Recently Seif al-Islam, who chairs the Libyan foundation Gaddafi told Bulgarian media that the Jamahiriya had proposed to release the medics in exchange for paying compensation to the families of the infected children.



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1) France’s Foreign Minister Discussed Bulgarian Nurses’ Case with Seif al-Islam

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