Foreign Minister Passy had an hour-long meeting with Mohamed Ali al-Masirati, Secretary of Libya's General People's Committee for Justice and Public Security, on December 21. The relations between the two countries and the improvement of contacts have been discussed at the meeting. Al-Masirati said that the two countries have traditional solid contacts, which have seen much evolution during the past years. Until early September 2001 Al-Masirati headed the People's Prosecution Bureau, which demanded death sentences for the Bulgarian medics standing trial in Tripoli on charges of conspiring against the Libyan State and deliberately infecting 393 Libyan children with HIV. The Libyan People's Court is expected to deliver verdicts against the six today. The chief Bulgarian diplomat will not attend the hearing. Later in the day on December 21, Passy also conferred with Seif al-Islam, son of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and President of the Qaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, who is to observe the trial. Minister Passy and the Bulgarian delegation visited the Information Centre of the Qaddafi International Foundation in Tripoli, the Libyan news agency JANA reported. Minister Passy was briefed on the activities of the Foundation, connected with the defence of human rights