FOREIGN MINISTER: VISIT IN LIBYA GAVE ME INSIGHT INTO THE MEDICS CASE

Politics | December 24, 2001, Monday // 00:00

“It was hard for me to imagine this was the first time in three years these people went out to a green lawn, “ Foreign Minister Passy said for National Private Television bTV, after he returned from Libya. During his official visit there the six Bulgarian medics charged with intentionally infecting 393 Libyan children with HIV virus were let out of the prison of Judeyda for some time. "My visit in Libya gave me another insight into the Bulgarian medics case. So far I had only been viewing the case from the Bulgarian side," he added, commenting his meeting with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. The Libyan People's Court postponed the hearing of the case against the medics on December 22, when the final verdict was expected to be delivered. The next hearing was scheduled for February 17, 2002.

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