Libya seeks EU diplomatic ties in exchange for medics

According to the BBC News, an EU delegation is in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, to broker a deal to free the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting hundreds of children with HIV and imprisoned in Libya since 1999. As part of the deal, Libya is said to be seeking renewed diplomatic ties with the EU and more funds to treat the infected children as part of any deal to free six medics. While the government in Bulgaria wants the medics to be allowed to return home, the EU is reported to be unwilling to agree any compensation deal that appears to give the impression that it accepts the six medics are guilty.
........I fail to comprehend how, on one hand Libya could be demanding Europeans to respect its justice system and at the same time want to trade diplomatic favors for the lives of the dead, if indeed these medics are supposed to be guilty. Or is it that there is more than meets the eye and ear behind the scenes- have the big boys from the EU have threatened to use as many sticks as carrots to get Libya to free the medics? If that is the case, where are the carrots and should not they be going to the victims instead of the government? Something just does not pass the stink test here. Though locking these medics on trumped up charges is as reprehensible as asking them to pay for their freedom if they are guilty, the very idea of Libya seating on the table wanting diplomatic ties with the EU in exchange for the freedom of these people is utterly disgusting. People died and the best thing the government could come up with is an exchange of money and diplomatic ties! Is this the vision that Libya has for the rest of Africa under one umbrella of the United States of Africa? If Libyans have neither respect for their own justice system nor for their own lives, can the rest of world take them- or any African country for that matter- serious? Instead of diplomatic ties, perhaps Libya should be asking the EU for judges to improve its justice system that currently seems to be a sham.