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Posted in Morning News on 27 – 03 – 2019
Foreign Minister Khamis Al-Jahnawi expressed hope that the Arab summit will lead to qualitative decisions allowing the development of a joint Arab action. He stressed that Tunisia will use to bring back the Palestinian cause at the forefront of Arab and international attention.
The minister expressed the hope that the summit, which was held on March 31, marked the beginning of the solution in Libya, stressing that there was no military solution to the crisis Libyan.
Regarding the situation in Syria, the minister said: "Unfortunately, the present and the future of Syria are discussed in Geneva and Astana outside the Arab framework", calling on Arab countries to play a greater role in this domain.
The text reads as follows:
How are the preparations for the Arab summit going and what slogan will be held?
Nearly six months ago, we began preparations for the summit to meet all the conditions to welcome some 6,000 Arab leaders, ministerial delegations, representatives of the Arab League, specialized Arab organizations, international organizations and the media, as well as many foreign friends who will participate in the summit.
In terms of content, we have been consulting with our Foreign Ministers on a number of current Arab issues to be presented at the Tunis Summit, in order to recognize the need to speed up the process. of political settlement of Arab crises in Yemen, Syria and Libya. It is important to deepen the causes of differences and to discuss mechanisms to avoid these differences in the future in order to develop a common Arab action and bring it into line with rapid regional and international changes. There are also problems related to the issue of terrorism, which is the front line. All eyes of the Arab States, our country has been at risk, and it was necessary for the Arabs to coordinate with each other through the exchange of information and Tunisia will coordinate with most countries to enhance security. of our country and to support our capabilities to deal with this scourge. Given the nature of the experience lived by Tunisia, Arab leaders can not embrace without speaking about the role of young people in defining the reality and the future of Arabs and the Arab world. The importance that Arab countries must give to young people, who represent more than 60% of Arabs. In the Arab world, without paying particular attention to this basic group of Arab societies. We can not talk about security in Arab countries without talking about the status of women. The issue of women's rights and their role in politics, and even issues related to the fight against terrorism, is very important because we have a comprehensive approach to the fight against family and school crime. Terrorism is not a security problem. But also a question of culture and family that plays a very important role in this area.
With regard to the fundamental issues and themes to be addressed by the Summit, including the question of Palestine. What did the Tunis Summit prepare for this question?
The summit of Al-Dhahran was the slogan of "Jerusalem" at the initiative of the guardian of the Two Holy Mosques, but we unfortunately found that the attention given to the question of Palestine had declined on the international and Arab scene and that the message of the Tunis Summit was to restore attention to this issue. It is impossible to talk about stability and lasting peace without finding a solution to this problem and without recognizing the right of the Palestinians to establish their independent state on their territory, with Jerusalem as its capital. It is true that no Arab state does not care about the Palestinian cause, but what we are looking for is to focus more on it. While other issues are equally important, we do not believe that, with the accompanying questions, we will find a solution to the central question of Palestine. UNRWA was almost on the brink of bankruptcy and Arab countries intervened to inject money into the many Palestinian students in camps that are in difficult situations and need to continue. This assistance is also needed to work for Palestinian reconciliation, to emphasize cohesion and to support the home front.
We want to devote the Arab summit to Arab awareness of the need to pay more attention to speeding up the process of political settlement of the various Arab crises.
Does the agenda remain to take action in response to the US move to have Jerusalem and other countries transfer their embassies to Jerusalem? As well as in response to the US President's decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights?
The Jerusalem issue is an agenda item at the Arab and Islamic summits, which clearly stated that Jerusalem was the capital of the Palestinian state and that it was considered the capital of Israel, a unilateral decision to the contrary. to all international resolutions. With regard to the Golan Heights and the recent US declaration, I think that this issue will be the subject of an exchange of views between the Arab leaders, the Golan being considered occupied by the United Nations since 1967. The Council of UN Security Council has also affirmed this and has declared that any action taken by Israel as the occupying Power is null and void. The European Union and the Arab League have also declared that the Golan is a occupied Syrian territory and if the international community confirms it, the Arabs will not say the opposite, whatever their differences.
Of course, but will they take concrete action to follow up on the recent US statement?
For every recent incident and I do not want to pre-empt things and it's not my responsibility and I think the important topics should be presented by foreign ministers and Arab leaders.
We noticed that Arab voices were pushing for normalization with Israel: are there plans and initiatives to put an end to this race for standardization?
I think normalization with Israel is not on the table, we can not talk about normalization with Israel, which occupies an Arab country, does not weigh international resolutions and peace initiatives and does not respond to the Arab initiative.
I think that the normalization of Israeli-Arab relations is linked to progress in the realization of the peace process and to the realization of the two-State project. If the rights of the Palestinian people are not recognized, I think that from the point of view of Tunisian view, the issue of standardization is not the order of the day. The question of Palestine is the question of peoples, and it is the strength of the Palestinian cause and the secret to continue to pay attention to them and their rejection of any normalization.
But normalization will make things harder for them?
From the Tunisian point of view, we have focused on how to put the Palestinian cause at the forefront of the attention of the Arab and international community and how we can help the Palestinians to further strengthen their rights as part of international organizations and others. The goal is to live in peace in two states and it is the spirit of the Arab initiative that does not abandon it. I speak on behalf of Tunisia and I sincerely believe that the Arab countries, especially the peoples, do not forget their cause.
Frankly, there is a Palestinian resentment about the emergence of Arab voices that speak of Iran as the main enemy, not Israel, which surprises the Palestinians. Even in the media, we have read articles in Arab newspapers that describe Israel as a normal, unoccupied country in the region, a dangerous precedent and an introduction to the commercialization of standardization?
Israel must give the rights of the Palestinian people and we can not accept them as a state without achieving them.
Syria has been a controversial topic in the archives of Arab summits. What is the Arab League's approach on this issue and why have you been one of the first requests to return to the university?
Syria is a founding state of the Arab League and a pivotal country of the Arab arena.It is normal that Arabs care about the present and the future of Syria and that they can not not leave their present and their future outside. Tunisia has not yet decided on the question of its return.There is no decision-making mechanism within the Arab League.In 2011, the Foreign Ministers decided to suspend the accession of Syria and the other affiliated organizations. Now, the Arabs must assess the situation in Syria and position themselves on what is happening, then tackle it and see how to help them out of the crisis because it is not enough to come back and is still in shambles. The essence of things is to help Syria destroyed.
The fundamental problem that arises today is how the Arabs find their role in Syria, and their absence is resolved. Syria is headed today in Geneva on the international track or on the way to Astana in the absence of the Arabs. We must take back our place and our role in Syria.
We can not talk about security for Arabs without talking about the condition of women in the Arab world
Regarding the Libyan issue, a meeting of the Quartet will be held in Tunisia on the eve of the Arab summit. Where do you see things happening in Libya?
The meeting of the Quartet on Libya, to be held in Tunis on March 30 at the invitation of the Arab League on the sidelines of the Tunis summit, represents an important opportunity to advance the political settlement in this brother country. The participation of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union and the Commissioner of the European Union in charge of Peace, Security and Foreign Policy at this meeting is an additional opportunity to support the efforts of the United Nations envoy to Libya, Mr. Ghassan Salama, to implement the United Nations settlement plan. Libya.
In this context, Tunisia attaches great importance to helping the Libyan brothers reach a consensus on the desired political settlement in their country and still stresses that the solution should be that Libya and Libya be protected from outside interference.
In this context, Tunisia attaches great importance to helping the Libyan brothers to agree on the desired political settlement, the initiative of the President of the Republic incumbent on Libya, which became in February 2017 an initiative. tripartite between Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt aiming to accompany the Libyan brothers in the search for a political solution. In accordance with the UN plan for the solution in Libya … The foreign ministers of the three countries gathered in Cairo on March 5, 2019 have confirmed with one voice their support for the efforts of the envoy of the UN in Libya and the rejection of the military solution, stressing the importance of reaching a peaceful political settlement reconciling the Libyan Libyan UN shaded.
Tunisia believes that the stability of the situation in Libya and its recovery will have a positive impact on the economic situation in Tunisia and in the region.
In this regard, I recall that Libya was Tunisia's second largest partner after the European Union, with a volume of transactions of about $ 2 billion before 2011. However, these transactions fell sharply, which negatively affected the economic movement in Tunisia.
Today, Ghassan Salameh has taken important steps to implement the road map: he convened a national meeting on 14 and 16 April in Ghadames, Libya, where a wide range of Libyan representatives will be present to debate the situation in Libya in order to lay the groundwork for the organization of legislative and presidential elections before the end of the year.
Will the Arab summit examine what is called the new "Arab Spring" in Sudan and Algeria?
First of all, Algeria does not want this description. Of course, there is mobility, but it concerns a country that has a bitter neighbor who has lived through bitter years and has the capacity, the skills and the experience to find solutions that meet the demands of the Algerian public without intervention. exterior.
The Algerian people have been cultivated and we have excellent relations with the neighboring people, we cooperate closely in the fight against terrorism, Algeria has supported us in many lawsuits for the recovery of health, the Algerian national liberation movement has lived for years in Tunisia and the blood is mixed between us and we are certain that the Algerians will emerge from the crisis. .
Some people think that the Arab League is in a state of clinical death: is there any serious hope to revive the Arab situation in the face of the sharp divisions that reign in the East, in Morocco and in the Gulf?
The Arab League is alive, but just activate to be more solid: even if it did not exist, it had to be found as the space where Arabs meet, discuss and discuss. discuss among themselves, but do their performances meet the aspirations of the Arab peoples? The answer is no, but the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, is aware of this and has presented an integrated project of reform of the Arab League.
For the Arab Maghreb Union, are there any efforts to activate this structure?
As for the Arab Maghreb Union, like the GCC countries, it is unfortunately frozen and we are keen to revitalize the Arab Maghreb Union. The cost of Morocco and the lack of a Maghreb common market have cost Tunisia a loss of growth of nearly 2 to 3%. We are therefore very enthusiastic and we have initiatives with our Moroccan brothers to discuss the issue. We have an initiative to be launched in April and we want to meet to discuss these issues. Things are changing fast in the world and we can not stay rigid.
Will the summit discuss the Gulf conflict and will there be initiatives in this regard?
With regard to the Gulf countries, we in Tunisia have expressed our previous opinion and stated that the Gulf countries are much more divided than they are and we hope that they will be able to overcome their differences because the strength of the Council of Gulf Cooperation is the strength of the Arabs.
In the introduction to the discussion of women and its role, as a dossier to be presented at the summit, do you not find that some Arab countries are obsessed with the Tunisian problem of women's issues, of 39, inheritance and non-polygamy?
The promotion of women's rights in Tunisia is not new: the awareness of the importance of developing the status of women is one of the traditions of our country and the leader Bourguiba, when? it began to modernize the status of women, was in fact based on a great cultural heritage and here we must recall the main reform movement in the field of women's rights since the reformer Tahar Haddad. Tunisia believes that there is no development or stability without the empowerment of women, this is the logic: societies evolve in the direction of progress and modernization. Modernization in Europe has started and we do not want to export it. Tunisia being the first country to abolish polygamy and recognize the need for a legal divorce rather than orally, Tunisians estimated today that, given the development of society, the The empowerment of women can not be ignored. With the man. Today, there are more than 60% female doctors and 43% female judges. Nearly 58% of university students are girls: it is these figures and societal reality that justify the question of the equality of inheritances, and the fact that the inheritance of men is twice that of women. women inherit is incompatible with the development of society.
But there are voices against this very path in Tunisia?
This is true and we consider that this is a natural and healthy demonstration of the vitality of Tunisian society: it is natural for societies to have different or opposing points of view on social issues. There are forces that push forward and forces that move away, but it is always the progressive and progressive tendency that wins. This is the process, and even if this initiative does not pass, it is no longer forbidden to discuss this issue (Al-Quds Al-Arabi)
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