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BBC News - Tuesday, 27 August, 2002
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Solomon Passy, welcomed the decision, saying it was evidence that Libya had depoliticised the trial and was sticking to a fair and transparent procedure.
The Bulgarians - along with a Palestinian doctor - were arrested at a hospital in Benghazi in 1998, and first appeared before a court dealing with national security matters.
But that court rejected claims by the Libyan prosecutors they they were part of an international conspiracy involving foreign intelligence services.
In June, a senior Libyan official said he believed the infection of the children with the Aids virus was a result of negligence, not conspiracy.
Libyan prosecutors have also brought criminal charges against several officials accused of torturing the Bulgarians at a prison in Tripoli.
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