Tuesday, March 15, 2011

LIBYA - The Bulgarian expertise in the service of Europe?

"My friend, There Is No opposition in Libya". So begins the interview with Seif al-Islam, a son of Muammar Gaddafi, obtained exclusively by the popular daily Trud - "the first in the European press since the start of the Libyan revolt" is boasts the newspaper. For the second son of Gaddafi clan, the National Council set up by the insurgents is composed of a dozen people "who represent only themselves." Asked about a possible U.S.

military operation, Seif al-Islam said that the regime in Tripoli was "prepared for everything." He wondered, however, insisted that "the Americans and the world understand the real situation in Libya" where "the whole country is united against armed militias." "These terrorists are organized into armed militias.

They fight and destroy everything. And they kill innocent people, "he says. "Accordingly, the whole world should support Libya against terrorists, not the reverse." "I told the world to send a mission to Libya to establish the facts. I even asked Bulgaria to send one," he says, providing the title of the cuff Trud.

Since the affair of the Bulgarian nurses, accused of "infecting Libyan children with AIDS," the evocation of Libya in Bulgaria is never trivial. This long and painful series (from 1999 to 2007, the date of their release) had a lasting impact people's minds, without breaking the bridges between the two countries, and many Bulgarian expatriates - medical personnel, engineers, construction workers - continue to win their lives in the country of colonel.

This case has also enabled many Bulgarian journalists to forge close ties with senior officials of the Libyan regime - which explains the secrets of Sail al-Islam, who played a key role in resolving the cases of nurses. Since the crisis began, these have been regularly invited by the Bulgarian press to give their opinions on current events.

Not surprisingly, most have confessed to follow hour by hour what was happening in Libya. For Kristiana Valcheva, the current uprising is very reminiscent of the months preceding his arrest in 1999. At that time also anger growled, after having silenced the voices of dissent, the regime had decided to light a fire-cons with the alleged case of children infected by AIDS by agents of the West.

Kristiana believed that this crackdown was to pass, or in any case the save. She was heavily disappointed. Bulgarians left behind, she now has only one piece of advice: run away immediately and by all means possible, the land of Colonel. "Do not repeat my mistake above, which cost me eight years of my life.

This regime is unpredictable," she said, quoted by quotidien24 Tchassa. A pessimism shared by his former comrades in misfortune. "I do not think that Gaddafi will go. He will find a way to get out," said Valya Tcherveniachka. The long and laborious negotiations to free the nurses have so far given birth to a "Bulgarian expertise" on the Libyan regime? Thinks so, anyway, Austrian President Heinz Fischer on receiving his Bulgarian counterpart, Georgi Parvanov, on March 7 in Vienna, called Bulgaria "specialist in relations with Libya." If this expertise exists, it will be useful in any case to the European Commissioner in charge of international cooperation, humanitarian assistance and response in times of crisis, which happens to be Bulgarian Kristalina Georgieva.

Since the beginning of the Arab Revolt, it multiplies the shuttles between the Maghreb, Brussels and Sofia. Visiting the Bulgarian capital on March 7, she said she was "pessimistic" about the developments in Libya, referring to the scenario of a civil war and a massive wave of refugees towards the European Union.

In which case the EU countries are obliged "to give these people shelter and decent living conditions," she said. To do this, she also asked the government in Sofia to participate fully in the community effort in hosting the refugees in Libya. Bulgaria might as well, after Italy, be on the front line facing the wave of illegal immigrants from North Africa through its land border with Turkey.

One possibility that does not lack for spice columnist reminiscent of Sega just as Bulgaria has been realigned indefinitely to integrate the Schengen area of \u200b\u200bfree movement at the request of France and Germany. "You do not want our Roma, and although we do not want your ascent," he writes in concluding that this story is a perfect example in the European Union, each State is only concerned with its own interests.

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