Nasser Bourita’s telephone interview with his Tunisian counterpart

Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita spoke by telephone last night with Tunisia’s new foreign affairs chief, Mohamed Ali Nafti. The Tunisian Foreign Ministry said Bourita “congratulated” the Tunisian foreign minister “on the great confidence that the president of the republic has placed in him.” In the press release.

The same source added that the two sides “underlined the depth and solidity of the fraternal relations between the two brotherly peoples and the common desire to further strengthen the cooperative relations between the Republic of Tunisia and the Kingdom of Morocco”.

A few weeks before the presidential elections of October 6, Kais Saied carried out a ministerial reshuffle on Monday, August 26. In addition to Nafti’s appointment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also appointed a new Secretary of State, Mohamed Ben Ayed, who served as ambassador to Morocco from 2018 to 2023. By the same decision, he was recalled for consultations President Saied welcomed the leaders of the Polisario Party during the Africa-Japan Summit in Tunisia in August 2022, which was subsequently held in Rabat.

Two weeks later, Nasser Bourita and Mohamed Ali Nafti spoke on the phone InterviewIn France, talks were held between the head of government, Aziz Ahannoush, and former Foreign Minister Nabil Amal.