18 October 2005 :
Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgam rejected a call by US President George W. Bush for Tripoli to spare the lives of five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in May 2004."This is a legal matter which cannot be influenced by any political decision," the minister told the Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera.
(Sources: Agence France Presse, 17/10/2005)
