Right after the six Bulgarian medics accused of deliberately infecting Libyan children with HIV were set free, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered prime minter Baghdadi Mahmudi to veto all decisions of interior minister Salah Rajab and foreign minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham.

Gaddafi’s order resulted from the ministers’ failure to cope with the international pressure for the liberation of the medics, diplomatic sources from several Arab countries told Libyan newspaper Libya Today.

Another reason was that the ministers failed to acquire guarantees that the medics would remain in prison after their return in Bulgaria under a Bulgarian-Libyan judicial treaty.

Mahmudi ordered the two ministers’ activity to be stopped and to permit them to carry out their duties under extreme conditions only.

Libyan opposition media abroad said that the outcome of the medics’ case showed many of Libya’s secret moves to delay the trial.

Analysts say that Gaddafi deprived other administrators of their rights because they failed to carry out orders regarding the medics.