Bulgaria expects the court in Tripoli to take just decision in the trial of the five Bulgarian nurses accused of deliberate HIV infection in Libya, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Dimitar Tsanchev said.

The nurses are accused of the intentional HIV infection of more than 420 children in Libya's town of Benghazi.

A final court sitting is scheduled for December 19 2006. The court is expected to pronounce the final sentences of the Bulgarians.

Libya's court had to take into consideration all evidence proving the innocence of the five, Tsanchev said.

Bulgaria believed that evidences and scientific reports presented to the court proved convincingly the innocence of the nurses. Recently a number of prestigious medical magazines published the works of Western virologists stating that the Bulgarians were innocent.

Bulgaria expected that the court would consider all facts and would pass a just decision, Tsanchev also said.