The Bulgarian MEPs called for solidarity with the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who are sentenced to death in Libya, at their first press conference in Strasburg on Tuesday.

They also appealed for help from the European Union for the Libyan children infected with HIV.

"I do not believe in the parable of the independent Libyan justice system," Evgeni Kirilov, MEP from the Socialist Group said and added that it will be absolutely unacceptable for the nurses to come back to Bulgaria with "guilty" verdicts.

Metin Kazak from the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe said he hopes Bulgaria and EU's efforts to bring out a positive result in the travesty HIV trial.

European Community's endeavour to alleviate the suffering of the ill Libyan children will continue after the six medics are freed, Dushana Zdravkova, MEP from the European People's Party promised.

All 18 Bulgarian MEPs backed the declaration that the Bulgarian media came out with at their third world meeting in the Vatican earlier this month. The declaration's message was "Freedom for the medics and help for the Libyan children with AIDS".

The spokesman of the Together Against Death Penalty coalition Michel Tobb expressed his hopes that the Wednesday's sitting of the Libya Supreme Court will be the beginning of the end of the two tragedies.

In the end of the press conference the MEPs handed to all who attended it special folders containing the chronology of the HIV trial, including pictures.

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