Sergei Stanishev: Welcome home, the drama is over; you are already at your home country as free people. Bulgarian Government will discuss the support it is to render to the medics at a special meeting.
The release and return of the Bulgarian medics is a direct consequence of Bulgaria’s EU membership, of the solidarity of the European Union and the fact that all our partners unconditionally supported our cause, said the Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, welcoming the Bulgarian medics detained in Libya for the last 8 years, at Sofia Airport. The battle was very long and painful but what matters now is that it ended successfully, added he. The drama is over; you are already at your home country as free people said the Prime Minister to Valya Chervenyashka, Valentina Siropoulo, Kristiyana Vulcheva, Snezhana Dimitrova and Nasya Nenova, Zdravko Georgiev and the Palestinian doctor Ashraf who arrived at Sofia Airport by French governmental aircraft, accompanied by EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Cecilia Sarkozy.
The decision of the Libyan High Judicial Court of 17th July marked the end of the legal stage of the trial and afforded an opportunity to finalize all efforts we have exerted, with the support of the European Commission, as well as of the Member States, especially Germany, France and Great Britain for the achievement of our ultimate aim- the release of our medics and their return to Bulgaria, said the Prime Minister. He expressed his gratitude to all friends of Bulgaria in the European Union and especially to the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, to Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to Mrs. Cecilia Sarkozy and to the leaders of the countries who unconditionally supported our cause. According to the Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev a chief role for the achievement of this success had the fact that after Bulgarian EU accession we posed the issue of the sentenced medics as a problem between Libya and the European Union.
EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner noted that the joy of this humanitarian success is due to the joint efforts of the European Union and especially of France. It is due to the efforts of Bulgaria, the European Union and noticeably to the efforts exerted during the Presidency of Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, France.
The Prime Minister announced that the Government will discuss the support it is to render to the medics at a special meeting.
During the ceremony of welcome the decree by which the President Georgi Parvanov pardoned the Bulgarian medics and the Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian citizenship. - Source: Government of Bulgaria
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