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Press reports that France and EU paid 460 mln dollars for release of sentenced medical workers. Is it true? You mention payments but on much smaller scale.

by FarEasterner on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 12:23:32 PM EST

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No, I reported the same scale: $1 million per victim, that's $460 million altogether.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 12:56:18 PM EST
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Funny how not it becomes "France and the EU", BTW. Whereas the biggest contributor was the Lybian government itself, followed by Bulgaria, and I strongly suspect Germany in third place.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 12:57:49 PM EST
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Actually, the way it is being reported here is that the Lybian contributions are actually money that was owed to the Bulgarian government for various goods from way back in the Warsaw Pact days.

by gradinski chai on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 01:13:30 PM EST
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No, this trick was played with Bulgaria's part, see te part I quoted in the diary.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

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by DoDo on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 01:55:14 PM EST
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these articles are throwing up another aspect - which I haven't read anywhere else (all in German) Especially this article states, that the amount would be almost identical to what Libya had promised to pay for the Lockerbie victims -

also :
Zunächst hatte Saif Gaddafi von einem Erlass der libyschen Schulden durch Bulgarien, die Slowakei, Kroatien und die Tschechische Republik gesprochen.

Dafür gab es von den Regierungen weder ein eindeutiges Dementi noch eine Bestätigung. Später behauptete die Gaddafi-Stiftung, die Gelder stammten aus dem von der EU unterstützten Hilfsfonds. Doch das wies EU-Außenkommissarin Ferrero-Waldner mit den Worten zurück: Die Entschädigung komme ,,von der Gaddafi-Stiftung, es ist libysches Geld". In Tripolis wurde daher darüber spekuliert, dass die Stiftung in Vorleistung auf einen Schuldenerlass getreten ist, den sie noch erhofft.		But the governments provided neither a clear denial or a confirmation. Later on the Gaddafi Foundation maintained that the funds originated from the relief fund supported by the European Union. But the EU foreing relations commissioner Ferrero Waldner rejected the claim with the words: The remuneration comes, from the Gaddafi Foundation, it is Libyan money ". In Tripoli it is being speculated that the Foundation advanced the payment in the hope that there will be debt relief

this all sounds so complicated...

by PeWi on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 07:59:30 PM EST
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didn't link

by PeWi on Tue Jul 24th, 2007 at 08:00:09 PM EST
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