PM reaffirms Tunisia's commitment to support building up of new Libya

Interim Prime Minister Béji Caid Essebsi reaffirmed on thursday in Paris Tunisia's total commitment to support the brotherly Libyan people in building up new Libya. Addressing the international conference of support to new Libya  held at the initiative of France and Great Britain with attendance of some 60 countries and international organisations, the PM stressed that the future of relations between Tunisia and Libya is more than mere economic co-operation and trade exchanges. "The point will be to favour strategic complementarity for the benefit of the interests of the two brotherly peoples and the regions of the Maghreb, Africa and the Mediterranean," he reckoned. Caïd Essebsi called on the international community to provide all the guarantees to support Libya in this decisive stage, stressing the need to respect the will of Libya's people and paying tribute to the national transitional council (NTC) which is seeing to preserve the unity of the people and the country. The changes that happened in Tunisia, in Egypt and in Libya represent a historic change in the region and in the world and testify to the will of peoples to free themselves from the yoke of oppression and corruption, he said. "The success of Arab Revolutions will definitively put an end to dictatorial systems of government ", Caid Essebsi affirmed. On the sidelines of the conference, the PM had talks with the heads of delegations of brotherly and friendly states including french president Nicolas Sarkozy, the Emir of Qatar, Morocco's Prime Minister, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the President of the African Union, the President of the European Commission and the UAE Foreign Minister.