unresolved issues:
Libya's Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday death sentences on six foreign medics for infecting Libyan children with HIV...Cretz at pipl
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In a sign of improving US ties with Libya, President George W Bush has announced he is sending the first US ambassador to Tripoli in nearly 35 years.
Wednesday's announcement came despite unresolved issues with Libya over compensation for US relatives of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland and demands for the release of Bulgarian nurses accused of infecting children with HIV.
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Bush nominated Gene Cretz, currently Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and previously Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Damascus, to the Tripoli post, which has been empty since 1972.
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