A working session was held, on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) in Tunis, under chairmanship of Messrs. Mohamed Ghariani and Abdelkader Baghdadi, Co-ordinator General of the Libyan Revolutionary Committees’ Movement, with attendance of delegations from the Rally and the Libyan Movement.
Mr. Mohamed Ghariani stressed President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s keenness to strengthen co-operation and complementarity relations between Tunisia and Libya and his commitment to further boost them, stressing the importance of this meeting in enriching these relations and boosting the permanent momentum between the two countries.
He pointed out that the visit of the Libyan high-level delegation to Tunisia materialise the level of relations of brotherhood binding the two countries, the two leaders and the Rally and the Revolutionary Committees’ Movement which, he said, are acting in the service of the Maghreb peoples’ interests and to materialise their ambitions in completing the Maghreb integration process and designing a better future for young generations.
Mr. Abdelkader Baghdadi, Co-ordinator General of the Revolutionary Committees’ Movement expressed Libyan people’s consideration for the success made by Tunisia on the path of progress and influence and for taking up the challenges of the recent presidential and legislative elections.
He underlined, in this regard, that these elections allowed to reassert confidence of the Tunisian people in President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and in his ambitious project, as well as people’s cohesion around the RCD.
He praised Tunisia’s progress towards more prosperity and successes, expressing hope to achieve more gains for the benefit of the two brotherly peoples, on the road of complementarity and integration at the Maghreb and African levels, in line with the vanguard and strategic vision of the two countries’ leaders.
He underscored the important role of the Revolutionary Committees’ Movement and the Rally’s in boosting bilateral and multilateral co-operation, while seeking to enhance the efficiency of the Arab presence in the African space, boost the Arab Maghreb Union and consolidate efforts exerted by its structures and institutions in the political area.
The talk also provided the opportunity to stress the key role of the two countries in strengthening dialogue between political parties, as part of the African Union and the European Union, to ensure the success of the AU-EU (Africa- Europe) Summit due in 2010 in Libya, in addition to boosting the conference of Maghreb political parties by ensuring periodicity of this meeting to enrich thinking on regional and international issues of mutual interest. (TAP)
