Bulgaria, EU move to secure freedom for HIV medics
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Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya on Wednesday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus.
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Politics: 26 September 2004, Sunday. Sofia and Tripoli have agreed to ask the European Union (EU) to join the discussions over the case with the five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya.
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The European Union says it will to redouble its efforts to avert an epidemic of HIV/Aids across Europe.
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Six medics jailed in Libya for infecting children with HIV arrive in Bulgaria and are pardoned by the president.
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Libya has asked for normalized  relations with the European Union in talks over releasing six  foreign medics jailed for infecting hundreds of children with  HIV, an official source in Libya said on Monday.
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Bulgaria said it hoped Libya would finalize an deal on Monday to free six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV, a move that would boost Tripoli's relations with the West.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and EU officials pressed for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, the president's office said Monday.
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The European Union said on Tuesday it  made &quot;substantial progress&quot; 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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Efforts to free six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV may be near a conclusion after "positive" European initiatives, a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday.
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EU foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya on Monday, despite fears for Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers sentenced to death there, but imposed a visa ban on senior officials from Myanmar.
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Libya has asked for normalized relations with the European Union in talks over releasing six foreign medics jailed for infecting hundreds of children with HIV, an official source in Libya said on Monday.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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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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Bulgaria donated $56.6 million in  Soviet-era debt owned by Libya as its contribution to a deal  that led to the release of six medics convicted of infecting  Libyan children with HIV.
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The UN&#39;s Children&#39;s Fund and the European Union on Tuesday called for an end to discrimination against HIV-positive and Gypsy children in Romanian schools.
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TRIPOLI, Libya -- The death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV have been commuted to life in prison, Libya's foreign minister said yesterday .
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Bulgarian judicial officials meet Wednesday to seek the transfer from Libya of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor after their death sentences were commuted to life in prison for infecting hundreds of children with the AIDS virus.