EU cites progress in bid to free Bulgarian nurses
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The European Union said on Tuesday it made "substantial progress" in talks with Libya this week to secure the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor held in Libya, but more talks were needed.
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A European Union medical delegation is visiting Libya to assess the plight of some 400 children infected with HIV. In May, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were sentenced to death for intentionally infecting them.
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SOFIA (bnn)- Five Bulgarian nurses, whom Libya has sentenced to death for allegedly causing an AIDS outbreak at a childrenâs hospital, will likely sue the Arab state for illegally arresting and torturing them, an official said Monday.
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Politics: 19 January 2005, Wednesday. The European Court of Human Rights found Bulgaria guilty of ill-treating a prisoner, it was officially announced on Wednesday.
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"We strongly support the release of the Bulgarian nurses in Libya"  US President George W. Bush said yesterday it was a high priority for the United States to win the release of five Bulgaria n nurses sentenced to death in Libya for infecting children with HIV. via People's Daily Online
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The European Union has agreed to implement last year's U.N. decision to lift economic sanctions on Libya as well as ending its arms embargo on the North African country, diplomats said on Wednesday.
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Thousands of people demonstrated across Bulgaria on Friday to call for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor condemned to death for infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison.
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Europe's programme for funding scientific research in the member states is a step closer to being adopted.
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Bulgarian parliament speaker Ognian Guerdjikov called on European Union legislatures to help save five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya in a scandal over AIDS-tainted blood.
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For the Record: 30 September 2004, Thursday. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will intervene to help free five Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya on a visit to Tripoli in mid-October. Washington Times ...
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BUCHAREST, Feb 15 (IPS) - Still "on probation" from Brussels,  Bulgaria is taking bold steps to persuade the European  Union  that it is efficient in getting rid of corruption and organised  crime.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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Bulgaria's foreign minister said Friday that negotiations were taking place with the families of Libyan children with HIV, but he cautioned that a deal to allow the release of six medics convicted of infecting them was far from being reached.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Gergana Grancharova said her government believes the nurses are innocent and that such a payment could be seen as buying their freedom and an admission of guilt.
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BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to lift an arms embargo on Libya, marking a further step toward the return of the North African country to the international diplomatic fold.
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Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment