HIV medics freed after Libya-EU deal
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Six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV were freed on Tuesday after a partnership deal between Tripoli and the European Union ended their eight-year ordeal.
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The families of hundreds of HIV positive children in Libya received a $460 million financial settlement on Tuesday, opening the door for a judicial panel to free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them.
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Libya took another big stride out of diplomatic isolation on Wednesday when the European Union agreed to lift all sanctions on the North African country.
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Libya achieved Monday a new major political victory by the EU decision fully and finally lifting the embargo on selling and exporting weapons to Libya imposed since 1986.
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LONDON, July 17 -- Officials in Libya on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of six foreign health workers convicted of intentionally infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, the latest in a series of steps aimed at closing a case that has severely strained relations between a once-pariah...
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Families of Libyan children infected with AIDS said on Thursday they had reached an agreement with Britain&#39;s outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair which could save five Bulgarians and a Palestinian doctor from the death sentence and bring medical help to the sick infants.
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The families of Libyan children with HIV received a financial settlement on Tuesday, a spokesman for the family said, opening the door for a government panel to free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them.
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LUXEMBOURG  - The European Union on Monday ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms Embargo to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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EU officials are in Libya to try to resolve the case of medics sentenced to death for infecting children with HIV.
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"I am calling for calmness and a little bit more patience, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said. "We are taking and will be taking all steps to bring this whole case to an end as soon as possible and see our compatriots very soon on Bulgarian soil."  By Anna MudevaSOFIA  - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.The five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who have spent more than eight years in jail, could be pardoned by the Balkan country's president if they are sent to Sofia under a 1984 prisoner exchange agreement with Libya.Following hectic diplomatic talks and payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to the families of 460 HIV victims, Tripoli commuted the death sentences against the six to life imprisonment late on Tuesday, paving the way for their release. Read more
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The European Union on Monday ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward the North African country for giving up plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Libya has paid funds to more than half the families of Libyan children with HIV under a deal that could free six foreign medics condemned to death for infecting them, a spokesman for the families said on Tuesday.
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EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner is in Libya working with Cecilia Sarkozy, wife of the French president, to win the release of six foreign medics, a statement said Sunday.
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The European Union (EU) agreed in principle Wednesday to lift an arms embargo on Libya after pressure from Italy, which wants to help Libya close its borders to illegal immigrants, diplomats said.
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Libya took another big stride out of  diplomatic isolation on Wednesday when the European Union  agreed to lift all sanctions on the North African country.
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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Bulgaria said it hoped Libya would finalise a deal on Monday to free six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a move that would boost Tripoli's relations with the West.