Salehi Confers With Tunisia Speaker Of Constituent Assembly

Tunisia, April 24, IRNA – Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi conferred on latest bilateral and international developments in a meeting with Speaker of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly Mustapha Ben Jaafar. Salehi stressed the importance of exploitation of Tehran-Tunisia capacities for the interest of both sides. “Iran is ready to transfer its experiments in all fields including the field of law to the Tunisian brothers in the framework of inter-parliamentarian cooperation.” Speaker of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly for his part welcomed the expansion of cooperation between Iran and Tunisia and conferred with Salehi, latest developments on the drafting of Tunisia’s constitution. Salehi had also a meeting with Tunisia’s Industries and Trade Minister Mohamed Lamine Shakhari and discussed with him the ways for expansion of economic and trade relations, including making joint investment by Tehran and Tunisia. Tunisia’s Industry and Trade Minister for his part emphasized need for development of relations with Iran. Salehi on Monday also conferred with the Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali in Tunis on issues of mutual interest. Both sides exchanged views on ways for expanding the two countries' relations in political, economic and trade ties. They also discussed latest developments in the region and world. The Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem was also present in the meeting. Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem said on Monday that expansion of ties with Iran helps Tunisian government and nation during democratic transitional period after the revolution. He made the remarks in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Ali-Akbar Salehi in Tunis. Expressing honor on behalf of Tunisian government and nation to host the first Iranian high ranking official after their revolution, Abdessalem said that current volume of trade and economic cooperation is unsatisfactory, calling for further expansion of cooperation in different fields. He said that Tunis and Tehran share common stand on different issues such as empowering of the Islamic world and on other regional and international issues. Abdessalam said that he was pleased with holding an Iranian Film Festival in Tunis, calling for further expansion of cultural cooperation between the two countries. Salehi, heading a top political and parliamentary delegation, arrived here on Monday to hold bilateral talks with senior Tunisian officials./end