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SLOVAK CONTROVERSY ON BULGARIA’S NURSES TRIAL CONTINUES
09:08 Mon 26 Feb 2007
 

Slovak foreign minister Jan Kubis rejected all criticism targeting prime minister Robert Fico related to statements on the trial of the five Bulgarian nurses in Libya.

On February 23 media reported that Fico called the nurses ‘criminals’ in a letter to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddaffi. Misunderstanding resulted from the fact that Fico used a Slovak word which means both defendant and criminal.

Fico’s statement corresponded to the EU position on the trial, Kubis said as quoted by mediapool.bg. Kubis said that he talked to Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev and all problems were cleared up.

Opposition leader Eduard Kukan disagreed with Kubis’ explanation, mediapool.bg said. According to Kukan the conversation in Libya was in Slovak and the misunderstanding was not a result of bad translation.

Gyula Bardos, leader of the parliamentary fraction Hungarian Coalition Party said that the case was scandalous and Fico had to admit his mistake instead of claiming that he was misunderstood.

 
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Comments by Mickey Grant - 07:48 26 Feb 2007
The Slovak politician calling the nurses criminals...politicians making friendly phone calls to kaddafi, writing nice letters, friendly diplomatic missions to Libya ... so many world leaders having nice chats with "the leader" while the nurses are held so kaddafi can cover up his crimes. Such a simple issue in that one simply has to ask, "why didn't the nurses have proper medical supplies?" "Why were they threatened when they brought up the lack of supplies to the Libyan authorities?" When they pointed out to the Benghazi health authority that reusing disposable syringes was very dangerous, he threatened various foreign medical workers with their life. A Polish nurse was even thrown off her building. During the trade embargo, kaddafi simply had to make a buck in order to maintain his royal dictatorial style. What better to do than sell supplies donated to Libya such as millions of dollars of various medical supplies including syringes. The nurses even had to buy blood for transfusions on the black market since kaddafi was selling it as well. Imagine, a dictator selling the blood of his people? None of this situation is politics. It's the selfish action of a brutal self-centered dictator who at this point is loosing his mental capacity. What is frightening is the strange bed fellows kaddafi is getting from the oil potential ... including T. Blair. That's not even politics. That's money. When will the world realize these nurses are being held hostage by a madman? They were charged by his puppet court in order to cover up the national disaster he has made of his countries health care. At some point the Libyan people will come to realize that the HIV outbreak in Libya is not the approximately 3,000 individuals which the WHO states have AIDS in Libya. The figure at this time is more likely close to 100,000 Libyans out of a population of 5.4 million with 17% of that being sub-Saharan African workers with possibly even a larger percentage of HIV. I believe one thing is for sure and that's the fact that very few investigative journalist have looked at this story. I've spent 4 years of my life studying it and extensive travel. In 2004 I traveled to Bangkok to the AIDS conference there and discovered next to no one at the conference were aware of the situation with the Bulgarian nurses. I was amazed. This infuriated me so much that I helped organize a protest to free the Bulgarian and Palestinian doctor. Libyans get upset that the world seems to only talk about the nurses. My goal has been first to disprove the charges against the nurses and then focus on how the Libyan children got HIV. The answer to that was solved even before the nurses were formally charged by an investigation by the WHO. They said it was a result of dirty practices in the hospital. Guess what, those same dirty practices are done in all the hospitals in Libya. What is shocking is that kaddafi asked the WHO to classify this report and they classified it without an argument. The WHO has many health programs in Libya and didn't want to jeopardize these by upsetting the colonel. Libyans have called my film not objective. How can this be said when the WHO proved the cause of the outbreak even before the trial? www.creativehat.com My movie INJECTION is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5182317638126553942&q=injection&hl=en tel: 214-282-2671
Comments by kafene.net - 13:39 26 Feb 2007
Actually, it was a discussion from the from the Slovak state TV's programme "5 to 12" quoted by the SME site, re-quoted by our site and at the end quoted by Mediapool. Do u beleive it now?
 
 
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