Connecting the mass HIV infection in Libya's Benghazi to the work of the five Bulgarian nurses there was unacceptable, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dimitar Tsanchev said.

Previously Libyan health minister Muhammad Rashid told Libya Today that Libya was the only country in the world that suffered from deliberate HIV infections and that the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor caused AIDS epidemics in Benghazi.

The reasons for the HIV infection in Libya should already be well-known and the Bulgarians had nothing to do with it, said Tsanchev.

Leading HIV experts already disproved the intentional infection claims, said Tsanchev. Libya failed presenting any convincing evidence to prove the theory, he said.

The Bulgarians are expecting on December 19 the final verdicts in their trial. Prosecution called for the confirmation of the previously pronounced death sentences. Defence said that no scientific evidence established the guilt of the nurses.