Cabinet Mulls Sea Rescue for Bulgarians in Libya

Politics » DIPLOMACY | February 23, 2011, Wednesday // 10:05
Cabinet Mulls Sea Rescue for Bulgarians in Libya: Cabinet Mulls Sea Rescue for Bulgarians in Libya A Your Tube shot shows Libyan demonstrators clashing with security forces. The picture is made available by EPA/BGNES.

The government Airbus is still at the Tripoli International Airport awaiting departure, Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, informs.

Mladenov told the Bulgarian National Television, BNT, Wednesday morning that the plane is on standby to make sure all Bulgarians who wish to evacuate from tumultuous Libya have arrived at the airport.

The Minister says the situation will be reviewed and revised later Wednesday morning in order to decide if additional planes would be needed and what agreements can be made with other countries in order to evacuate Bulgarians located far away from Tripoli, mainly in eastern Libya.

According to Mladenov, Bulgaria is holding talks with several countries, focused on the situation in Benghazi because it is more complex than the one in Tripoli.

The demonstrators have full control of Benghazi and the airport is closed with all runways destroyed.

Because of that, the Minister explained the authorities are looking to find ways to evacuate Bulgarians there by sea.

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Tags: Libya, civil unrest, Tripoli, evacuation, airbus, plane, Muammar Gaddafi, Boyko Borisov, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Nikolay Mladenov, Benghazi

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