Libya Ready to Negotiate Bulgarian Nurses Release
Updated on: 11.06.2007, 10:10
Published on: 11.06.2007, 10:04
The efforts to free the six medics sentenced to death on the accusation of having contaminated with AIDS Libyan children, probably will find a way out of the situation after the positive European initiatives, claimed Muammar Gaddafi' s son Saif al-Islam, cited by Reuters.“There are positive initiatives from European side. We are on the last track of the marathon and we are in the most difficult phase”, pointed out Saif al-Islam in front of journalists.
He added that the decision for terminating the crisis should be taken by the Libyan court and the families of the victims.
Saif al-Islam spoke with the EU commissioner on external affairs Benita Ferrero-Waldner and the German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who are in Tripoli to negotiate the nurses' release.
Spokesman of the relatives of the contaminated children claimed that a possible agreement, should guarantee their expenses, their treatment in European hospitals, as well as the necessary compensations.