PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER MET THE ACCUSED MEDICS

Politics | September 3, 2001, Monday // 00:00

The Bulgarian parliamentary speaker Ognyan Gerdzhikov had a thirty minutes meeting with the five nurses and one doctor, sued for deliberate infection of 393 Libyan children with the HIV virus. The meeting took place in a cell in the `Judeyma` prison. It was not difficult to arrange it and nobody intervened in the conversation with the accused. The six Bulgarians said that the conditions have improved for them recently. They have access to radio and TV and have connection with the outside world. According to Gerdzhikov, the defendants looked `in relatively good health`. Before its departure from Tripoli, the Bulgarian delegation met in a lounge at the military airport with the deputy speaker of the Libyan parliament. Gerdzhikov asked for assistance in several unsolved matters, concerning the six Bulgarians as dental treatment outside the prison and separate room for the women. The Libyan official promised his assistance. Gerdzhikov said that at their brief meeting with Qaddafi, the Libyan leader asked about the situation in Bulgaria and greeted the Bulgarian President. He also thanked for the participation of Bulgarian representatives in the celebrations of the Libyan holiday and said that he appreciates highly the visit. The Bulgarian delegation came back from Libya in the afternoon of September 3. Ognyan Gerdzhikov said after his return to Bulgaria that he is hopeful about the outcome of the trial and called on the Bulgarian media and the public to adopt a positive attitude to the efforts of the Libyan side in this direction.

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