Jhinaoui reminds of need to coordinate with MFA

Minister of Foreign Affairs Khemaies Jhinaui reminded the heads of diplomatic missions accredited in Tunisia of the need to coordinate with ministries’ services to inform them in a timely manner of requests for meetings or talks with government members and senior state officials as well as their travel within the country."

In a statement released Thursday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs said the measure "aims to facilitate the missions of the heads of diplomatic missions, to give government members sufficient time to organise the meetings and to learn about bilateral cooperation files and allow the ministry's directorates to properly organise these activities and ensure the safety of members of the diplomatic missions which falls under the ministry.”

Khemaies Jhinaoui stressed, on the other hand, the concern of his department "to create conditions enabling the members of the diplomatic missions accredited in Tunisia to fulfill to the best of their task in boosting the relations of partnership and bilateral co-operation and to facilitate the stay conditions of foreign diplomats and their families".

The Minister of Foreign Affairs presented at a meeting with heads of diplomatic missions and ambassadors accredited in Tunisia and diplomats accredited in Libya with residence in Tunisia Wednesday a briefing on the broad lines of the presidential initiative for the settlement of the Libyan crisis, the outcome the Tunisian, Algerian and Egyptian foreign ministers' meetings and the contacts of the three countries with the various Libyan stakeholders.

source: TAP