Libya has not planned, or decided to impose a trade embargo on Bulgaria, Libyan diplomatic officials have assured Bulgarian Ambassador to Tripoli.

Ambassador Zdravko Velev was invited Thursday at Libyan Foreign Affairs Ministry to discuss media information circulated earlier this week that the Jamahiriya would introduce trade barriers for the denial of Sofia to take responsibility of the AIDS plague on more than 400 children.

Reuters announced Tuesday as quoting an anonymous Libyan official that Libya will boycott Bulgarian companies and shut the doors of all investment and trade opportunities for Bulgarian companies because Sofia has ignored demands to take responsibility for the action of its citizens in the HIV case.

This is the second case in a month when dubious or unconfirmed statements of Libyan officials have been circulated by world media to the result of causing grounds for tensed relations between Sofia and Tripoli.

At an international forum in Algiers last month an address of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi was mistranslated and circulated by world agencies in the sense that he had pledged - "in the name of God" - not to release the five Bulgarian medics sentenced to death in Libya. The information was subsequently denied by Tripoli.

Also on Thursday it appeared that two official representatives of Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov would leave for Libya, after Qaddafi invited Parvanov to pay a visit to the Jamahiriya.

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