CAIRO, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Libya...
two candidates.The longtime Bulgarian diplomat, who in the past served as the country"s foreign minister, studied at the prestigious Moscow State Institute for International Relations.
Experts have linked Libya"s tough stance on the Bokova issue with a scandal involving five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor who were found guilty of infecting more than 400 children with the deadly HIV virus in a Bengazi hospital in the late 1990s.
The medics were found guilty and sentenced to death twice, first in 2004 and then in 2006 after a court appeal.
Bulgaria, the European Union and the United States insisted that the defendants were being used as scapegoats to deflect attention from the poor state of Libya"s health service.
Foreign experts, backed up by international scientific reports, testified in court that the infections began before the medics" arrival, and were caused by poor hygiene in the Bengazi hospital.