1. Condemns the verdict of the Libyan Criminal Court of 19 December 2006, convicting, after a re-trial, and sentencing to death five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiana Vulcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Snezhana Dimitrova, and a Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Haiui, who have already spent eight years in prison in connection with the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi hospital;

1. Condemns the verdict of the Criminal Court in Libya on 19 December 2006, convicting, in a re-trial, and sentencing to death five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiana Vulcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Snezhana Dimitrova, and one Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Haiui, who have already spent eight years in prison in connection with the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi hospital;

1. Condemns the verdict of the Criminal Court in Libya on 19 December 2006, convicting, in a re-trial, and sentencing to death five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiana Vulcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Snezhana Dimitrova, and one Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Haiui, who have already spent eight years in prison in connection with the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi hospital;

1. Condemns the sentencing to death of five Bulgarian nurses, Kristiana Vulcheva, Nasya Nenova, Valentina Siropulo, Valya Chervenyashka and Snezhana Dimitrova, and one Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Haiui, who have already spent eight years in prison in Libya in connection with the 1999 HIV/AIDS case at the Benghazi hospital;

As part of a national standardization of the accreditation process, Philippine-trained nurses with nursing degrees obtained in the Philippines must be recognized and given their full value as degree nurses, not merely as diploma nurses.

PALOP COUNTRIES Regional centres for 7TH EDF - ECU 3 480 000 training health workers GRANT The PALOP regional programme was signed on 29 June 1992 by the European Community and the five Portuguese-speaking countries that are signatories to the Lomé Convention (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe. The programme comprises seven measures: - Training of public sector health workers in Maputo (M); - Training of nurses and senior nurses in Luanda (A); - Reviving the education system in Sao Tome (STP); - Training lower category statistical staff in Bissau (GB); - Training civil servants and business managers in Praia (CV); - Institution for the promotion of exports and investments in Luanda (A); - A Portuguese language b ...[+++]ibliography in Maputo (M). The general aims of these projects are to provide all five countries with more people capable of taking charge of matters concerning public health and to bring about an improvement in the long term in the ability to cope with problems arising in the running and management of the 385 local health districts.