PARIS, Jan 8, 2008 (AFP) - The findings of a French parliamentary inquiry into the release by Libya last year of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor are to be made public on January 22, one of its members said Tuesday.
Axel Poniatowski, a member of the National Assembly who is the inquiry's rapporteur, said in a statement that publication of the final report "will be open to the press".
His preliminary report was presented Tuesday behind closed doors to members of the inquiry, during which he said he took note of a number of remarks that would be reflected in the final document.
The six medical workers, detained in Libya since 1999, were released July 24 after they were tried and convicted on charges of spreading AIDS among children in a Libyan hospital through vaccinations.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy sent his then wife Cecilia to Libya in a French aircraft to collect the six under the limelight of international publicity, prompting the Socialist Party to call for an inquiry into the circumstances behind the operation.
The parliamentary inquiry got underway in October, and heard testimony from key Sarkozy aide Claude Gueant, but the former Mrs Sarkozy -- now divorced from the president -- refused to participate.
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