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BRUSSELS - A top European Commission official and France's first lady are in Libya to seek the release of six medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV, the European Commission has announced.
The European Union executive said in a statement that EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Cecilia went to the North African state on Sunday "as part of efforts for the release of the (five) Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor".
"The European Commission hopes that this situation, which is so painful and has lasted so long, can be resolved in a humane spirit," the statement said. It gave no further details.
- REUTERS
