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"Mr President, Lady Ashton, in 1999, in order to avoid unrest in the opposition city of Benghazi, Gaddafi needed scapegoats on whom he could pin the responsibility for the children infected with AIDS as a result of poor Libyan healthcare. He found six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to serve this purpose, who spent long, harrowing years in Libyan prisons.
However, Gaddafi’s manipulation of this situation failed in his own country, which is proven by the fact that Benghazi was actually now where the revolution started. The nurses, who were victims of Gaddafi’s dictatorship, became a clear symbol of European solidarity. This European solidarity is expected today from Libya’s citizens themselves and from the young people of Libya. It is expected from those who do not see the Arab world facing a dilemma of ‘either dictatorship or Islamism’ and who prove every day, including with their blood, that there is also a place for democracy in this world.
This is why today, when we are debating the future of Libya, we Europeans must be impartial in our assessments, definite in our actions and, most importantly of all, united in our decisions. We must give our support to principles, freedom and democracy in this world."@en1
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