"Do as you are told, kufrs!"CAIRO (Rooters) - The Arab League urged Bulgaria on Monday to respect a deal with Libya after the European country released six
Libya on Saturday called on other Arab League members to review their ties with Bulgaria for pardoning and releasing the medics on arrival there, a step which it said violated bilateral accords.
The Arab ministers demanded that the Bulgarian government "meet its commitments and pledges based on the judicial accord between the two countries", said Abderraouf Basti, the head of the Tunisian delegation, reading from the final communique of a meeting of Arab foreign ministers. The ministers also expressed their "regret that such a human tragedy which must not be repeated and whose perpetrators must be punished ... is being politicised".
| A reasonable person might read that as a criticism of Libya, but I'm comfortably certain the Arab ministers didn't mean that. |
In a subsequent deal, the European Union promised closer ties with Libya in exchange for custody of the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor, who were flown to Bulgaria this week and immediately pardoned and freed by the president. Bulgarian officials said the pardon was legal.