Brussels, 08/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Commissioner for External Relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, has described as extremely worrying the decision by a Libyan Court of Appeal, which on 7 June acquitted nine police officers and a doctor accused of mistreating five Bulgarian nurses held in Tripoli (and facing the death penalty, together with a Palestinian doctor, having been accused of deliberately injecting Libyan children with the AIDS virus). Last Friday's JHA Council already stressed that a solution to this affair was "a priority for the EU" (see EUROPE 8961). Ms Ferrero-Waldner, who recently said that she was greatly encouraged by the assurances she received from the Libyan authorities during her recent visit to Tripoli that international standards were being respected in this trial (EUROPE 8959), said: "we have been extremely disappointed by the procedures used in this trial: members of Lawyers without Borders have not been granted visas, and were therefore unable to attend or to assist their clients in line with international legal standards".