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Tunisian president visits Libya
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Tunisian President Marzouki has urged the governments of Tunisia and Libya to promote and strengthen relations and cooperation between Tunis and Tripoli.
"We must be up to the sacrifices of the people and the blood they shed to build a future for our children and for us to live in freedom, democracy and brotherliness, as part of the integration policy," said President Marzouki in a statement to the Libyan News Agency on arrival at Tripoli airport on Monday.
President Marzouki’s two-day visit to Tripoli, which ended on Tuesday, was part of his first trip abroad after he was elected president last 12 December. Tunisia and Libya have new governments following the overthrow of their leaders in peoples' revolutions last year.
He expressed the hope that his visit was a turning point in the new era of long and common history between the two countries.
The Tunisian president predicted a better future cooperation between the two countries and urged both parties to move beyond cooperation to a phase of integration between them.
President Marzouki also called for the reactivation of the Maghreb Union "to build a great Maghreb nation and beyond, creating the Union of the Independent Arab peoples".
He said the return to democracy and sovereignty of the people would open up wider opportunities, "which will promote the integration and joint action stifled in the past by the former dictators".
-0- PANA BY/TBM/IBA/JEN 2Jan2012
"We must be up to the sacrifices of the people and the blood they shed to build a future for our children and for us to live in freedom, democracy and brotherliness, as part of the integration policy," said President Marzouki in a statement to the Libyan News Agency on arrival at Tripoli airport on Monday.
President Marzouki’s two-day visit to Tripoli, which ended on Tuesday, was part of his first trip abroad after he was elected president last 12 December. Tunisia and Libya have new governments following the overthrow of their leaders in peoples' revolutions last year.
He expressed the hope that his visit was a turning point in the new era of long and common history between the two countries.
The Tunisian president predicted a better future cooperation between the two countries and urged both parties to move beyond cooperation to a phase of integration between them.
President Marzouki also called for the reactivation of the Maghreb Union "to build a great Maghreb nation and beyond, creating the Union of the Independent Arab peoples".
He said the return to democracy and sovereignty of the people would open up wider opportunities, "which will promote the integration and joint action stifled in the past by the former dictators".
-0- PANA BY/TBM/IBA/JEN 2Jan2012
