Sat, May 26 2012
Libyan officials and members of the team of France's new president Nicolas Sarkozy discussed the case of the five Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian medic sentenced to death for intentional HIV infection in Libya.
The results of the discussion were considered positive, officials said as quoted by French Le Journal du Dimanche.
On the night of his electoral victory, Sarkozy said that France would support the nurses.
Libya hinted several times over the past weeks that it wanted to end the nurses' case and needed French assistance, the newspaper said.
The nurses are sentenced to death for deliberate HIV infection of more than 420 children in the town of Benghazi.
People in Bulgaria showed openly their support for the nurses after the confirmation of the death sentences. Thousands flocked in front of Sofia's Alexander Nevski cathedral on May 12 to pray for the nurses, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Three Virgin Mary icons considered miraculous were brought to Sofia form three of the biggest monasteries in the country, AFP said.
While Bulgaria was praying for its nurses, the father of the Palestinian medic, also sentenced to death, applied for Bulgarian citizenship for his son, Iranian news agency IRNA said.
The global food import bill in 2012 could decline to $1.24 trillion, down slightly from last year’s record of $1.29 trillion.
Boevski has been under arrest in Brazil since October, when he was arrested at Sao Paulo's international airport with nine kg of cocaine in his luggage.
Whereas foreign media ownership is perceived as advantageous for media outlets and journalists, Bulgarian owners are perceived as investors with short-term vision who strive for immediate profits.
Killing spree in Norway in July 2011 and the arrests of individuals in a number of EU member states for the preparation of terrorist attacks, are proof of the continuing need for vigilance, Europol says.
In her message to mark the Day, Bulgaria's Bokova said that books are 'valuable tools' for knowledge-sharing, mutual understanding and openness to others and to the world.