European external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier discussed the fate of the five Bulgaria nurses sentenced to death in Libya with the head of Gaddaffi Foundation Saif al-Islam.
Al-Islam met the European representatives on June 10.
Waldner and Steinmeier also met children infected with HIV and their families.
European involvement in the case was hopefully going to produce the release of the medics soon, al-Islam said.
The final decision depended on Libya’s justice system, al-Islam said. Libya’s Supreme Court is to take a final decision on the appeal of the nurses against the death sentences.
The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic were accused of intentional HIV infection of more than 400 Libyan children, 56 of which already died. Defendants were sentenced to death in 2004 and the sentence was confirmed in the end of 2006.
West European scientists said that the infection resulted from negligence and bad hygiene in the hospital long before the nurses started working there.
