
This file photo shows pro govermental protesters demonstrating against a delay on the ruling on the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor. Photo by EPA/BTA
Bulgaria's adamancy in its refusal to pay indemnities for the freedom of the Bulgarian defendants in Libya met with condemnation from the families and relatives of HIV-infected Libyan children.
"The families and relatives of HIV-infected Libyan children protest against the latest statement of Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Ivaylo Kalfin. The people are against Kalfin's statement that the country will not pay money for helping the infected children in the Libyan town of Benghazi," the online edition of the Libyan daily "Libya Today" reported.
"We expect this minister to apologize to Libya for what the Bulgarian nurses have caused our children and not mock us in such a disdainful way," "Libya Today" cited the father of one of the sick children as saying.
The Libyan families also slammed "the diplomatic silence of the Libyan authorities," which should have stricken back to Bulgaria's statement.
Libya's Supreme Court in Tripoli ruled on a re-trial for the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor, who were sentenced to death for infecting over 400 Libyan children with the HIV virus, thus removing the immediate threat of execution.