A statement by the GPC for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation on the announcement of the Council of the European Union on the verdict against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor was released today and published on the Internet site of the Libyan News Agency Jana.

"The General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation expresses its categorical rejection of the statement of the Council of the European Union on January 22, on the verdict against the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, accused of injecting a large number of children with HIV/Aids, at the children hospital in the City of Benghazi and which led hitherto to the death of scores of them.

It is surprising that a statement to be released by European officials at such a level casting doubt in the fairness of the Libyan judiciary, and calling on the executive authority in Libya to intervene in the verdict, yet at the same time Europe is calling for the independence of the judiciary and not to influence it in the entire world.

This position is rejected, because it consolidates double standards which Europe has for long been using against Third World countries.

We would expect from the European officials at such a level their sympathy with the infected Libyan children, and their ill-fated families, and take brave decisions to help them at this humanitarian calamity.

A practical stance that shows solidarity would have positive reflections on all parties, especially that they know more than others that Great Jamahiriya categorically rejects pressure and interference attempts in matters related to sovereignty.

Thousands of doctors and nurses from Bulgaria have for a long time been and some still are working in Great Jamahiriya. They have been treated very kindly by their Libyan friends, the foreign ministry says in the statement.

The General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation reminds that the verdict issued against those nurses and the Palestinian doctor, is still before the High Court, and never ruled up to now.

Therefore, any statement on that is rejected and would not serve any of the parties".

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