Tunisian Diplomats, Lawyers Urge Government to Restore Normal Ties with Syria

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TUNIS- Many Tunisian diplomats, lawyers and academics have urged their government to restore its relations with Syria.

The Tunisian “al-Shorouq” newspaper quoted the former Tunisian Foreign Minister Ahmad Wanees as saying in a statement on Monday that the neutral and independent policy of the new Tunisian government under Prime Minister Mahdi Jum’a should amend the decisions made by the former two governments of al-Nahda party regarding relations with Syria.

“It is time for Tunisia to reconsider the decisions and procedures adopted regarding the crisis in Syria. Tunisia has to break the ice between Tunis and the Damascus through sending a special government envoy to Damascus to prepare the diplomatic environment to restore the relations between the two countries,” Wanees said.

Ahmad al-Mana’i, a lawyer and member of the previous Arab team of Arab Observers to Syria, said that there is a need in Tunisia now to correct the track of bilateral ties between Syria and Tunisia.

“Tunisia had committed  a grave mistake by severing diplomatic ties with Syria and by hosting the so-called “Friends of Syria” conference,” al-Mana’i said, pointing out that such procedures had urged young Tunisians to be engaged in the ongoing war and the bloodshed in Syria.

“The government of Mahdi Jum’a should open the Tunisian embassy in Damascus, at least at the consulate level and as a first step towards restoring completely normal ties with Syria,” al-Mana,i added.

For his part, Tunisian researcher and expert of Arab strategic relations, Munsef Wannas called for establishing new diplomatic channels to face the problems caused by some Tunisians arrested in Syria for their involvement in shedding the blood of the Syrians.

Wannas stressed that the Tunisian foreign ministry should announce its willingness to improve relations with Syria and to restore ambassadors.

On Saturday, some leftist nationalist parties staged a sit-in in the Tunisian capital to call for reactivating diplomatic ties with Syria and to condemn normalization efforts with Israel. 

H. Mustafa  

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