Tunisian President: Tunisia will not be Europe’s border guard 

Tunisian President Kais Saied affirmed his country’s categorical refusal to be the guard of Europe’s borders to prevent the flow of immigrants.

Tunisian Presidency said in a statement: “Saied discussed, during a telephone conversation with the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, the immigration file and the relations between Tunisia and the International Monetary Fund.

The Tunisian president renewed his position on the phenomenon of illegal migration, which can only be approached collectively. He recalled the initiative he had taken to convene an international conference that brings together all the concerned countries, which are the countries of North Africa and the Sahel and Sahara and northern Mediterranean countries.

Saied stressed Tunisia position that it can only be a guard of its borders. He asserted that there are criminal groups that traffic in human beings in the countries from which migrants depart or in the countries to which they go in Europe, and that Tunisia refuses to be a corridor for transit or a place for their stay.

On the other hand, the Tunisian president affirmed that the dictates and conditions that the International Monetary Fund is trying to impose on Tunisia are completely unacceptable, calling for work to establish a new world based on justice, otherwise countries will turn into companies or institutions that only care about profit away from humanity.

Inas Abdulkareem