Tunisian Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar affirmed that his country will not accept the “covert resettlement of irregular migrants,” expressing Tunisia’s condemnation of what he described as political or media exploitation of the suffering of victims of irregular migration to serve political agendas.
In a speech before the annual general debate of the United Nations General Assembly Saturday, the Tunisian Foreign Minister said: The phenomenon of irregular migration has worsened in the region due to weak levels of development in many countries of the African continent, the long duration of conflicts, and the effects of climate change.
He stressed the need to adopt a comprehensive approach to addressing irregular migration based on eliminating its deep causes and not only addressing its results, stressing the need for all parties from source, transit and destination countries and regional and international organizations to shoulder their responsibilities in this regard.
The Tunisian Foreign Minister pointed out the need to complete the process of the “Development and Migration Conference,” which was hosted by the Italian capital, Rome, last July, with a Tunisian-Italian initiative.
Regarding the Palestinian issue and the situation in some Arab countries, the Tunisian Foreign Minister affirmed his country’s call to “enable the State of Palestine to become a full member of the United Nations,” reiterating his call on the UN Security Council and the international community to “assume their responsibilities, to force the Israeli occupation authorities to respect the resolutions of international legitimacy, to achieve A just and comprehensive peace settlement based on agreed-upon international terms of reference ends the occupation, puts an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people, and enables them to regain their legitimate rights and establish their independent state.
On the other hand, he pointed out that Tunisia calls for “responsible and serious action to facilitate people’s recovery of their money stolen abroad, in a way that enhances those people’s reliance on their own financial resources, at a time when the current global financial system has failed to provide a financial safety net and provide easy and sustainable financing.” For developing and least developed countries.
Nabil Ammar believed that the current global financial system “contributed to deepening the gap between countries,” stressing that Tunisia “today calls for introducing fundamental reforms to the international financial system and changing global economic governance, with the aim of establishing an effective system.”
In his speech, he also touched on the challenges that the world is going through in light of the worsening wars and conflicts, the deepening of geopolitical divisions, and the continuing debt crisis of developing countries, as he called for strengthening international cooperation and solidarity on the basis of common and differentiated responsibility.
QNA