Closing session of High Authority for Achievement of Revolution Objectives

The High Authority for the Achievement of the Revolution Ojectives, Political Reform and Democratic Transition held on Wednesday the closing session of its council ahead of a ceremony due Thursday during which the Council will announce the official closing of the authority works. Authority Chief Yadh Ben Achour hailed the council members for their efforts to ensure transition to democracy saying that the authority had provided an adequate framework to adopt several government decrees regulating public and political life.  The achievements carried out by the authority will be remembered by history and acknowledged by future generations, he said. Participants called for the final declaration to provide for the possibility of convening the authority meeting in case of serious developments the country could face ahead of the first session of the constituent assembly. The session recorded as well a stormy debate about the draft declaration on the denouncement of the latest events that happened in a Sousse university and the controversy aroused by the broadcast by private TV station "Nessma" of the French-Iranian animated film "Persepolis."