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18.7.2007
Bulgaria Vows To Bring Its Medics Home As Soon As Possible
SOFIA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- All the institutions in the country will work for the Bulgarian medics to return home as soon as possible, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin vowed late Tuesday after the Libyan Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) commuted the death sentence to the medics for life imprisonment earlier.
"This SJC decision is a big step in positive direction," said Kalfin before local journalists.
"For us, the case will be concluded only when our compatriots returns to Bulgaria," the minister stressed.
He vowed to bring the medics home as soon as possible as the final decision of Libya opens the possibility for using the agreement for legal aid signed in 1984 between Bulgaria and Libya.
The spokesman of the top Procurator Margarita Popova also announced that the top procurator Boris Velchev will gather his crew Wednesday to work out a fastest way to bring the Bulgarian and Palestinian medics home.
Libya's SJC has finally commuted the death verdicts of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for life sentences on late Tuesday.
The six medics, who have been under arrest since 1999, were sentenced to death for deliberately causing an HIV outbreak at a Benghazi hospital and infecting 426 children with the virus.
The death sentence was reconfirmed by Libyan Supreme Court last Wednesday and the case was then delivered to the SJC, which has the right of final say -- to overthrow, to reconfirm or to commute the verdict.
The final ruling came hours after relatives of the HIV-infected children dropped their demands for execution of the medics after all of them received their compensations under a deal that was expected to lead to their freedom.
The compensation is worthy of 1 million U.S. dollars for each child.
The paper was one of two key documents that should guarantee the end of the 8-year-long trial. The other one is paperwork petitioning for pardon that was signed by the medics over the weekend.
Having known the new decision of Libya, Bulgarian lawyers become optimistic on the final freedom of the medics, as according to a bilateral judicial agreement signed in 1980s between Bulgaria and Libya, the Bulgarian medics could be transferred to Bulgaria to serve their sentence.
Editor: Luan Shanglin
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/
"This SJC decision is a big step in positive direction," said Kalfin before local journalists.
"For us, the case will be concluded only when our compatriots returns to Bulgaria," the minister stressed.
He vowed to bring the medics home as soon as possible as the final decision of Libya opens the possibility for using the agreement for legal aid signed in 1984 between Bulgaria and Libya.
The spokesman of the top Procurator Margarita Popova also announced that the top procurator Boris Velchev will gather his crew Wednesday to work out a fastest way to bring the Bulgarian and Palestinian medics home.
Libya's SJC has finally commuted the death verdicts of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for life sentences on late Tuesday.
The six medics, who have been under arrest since 1999, were sentenced to death for deliberately causing an HIV outbreak at a Benghazi hospital and infecting 426 children with the virus.
The death sentence was reconfirmed by Libyan Supreme Court last Wednesday and the case was then delivered to the SJC, which has the right of final say -- to overthrow, to reconfirm or to commute the verdict.
The final ruling came hours after relatives of the HIV-infected children dropped their demands for execution of the medics after all of them received their compensations under a deal that was expected to lead to their freedom.
The compensation is worthy of 1 million U.S. dollars for each child.
The paper was one of two key documents that should guarantee the end of the 8-year-long trial. The other one is paperwork petitioning for pardon that was signed by the medics over the weekend.
Having known the new decision of Libya, Bulgarian lawyers become optimistic on the final freedom of the medics, as according to a bilateral judicial agreement signed in 1980s between Bulgaria and Libya, the Bulgarian medics could be transferred to Bulgaria to serve their sentence.
Editor: Luan Shanglin
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/
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