10-08-2022
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday (August 10th) that “Tunisia’s dream of an independent government is now in jeopardy”.
In a speech at a ceremony of the Africom, American command in Africa, at its headquarters in Germany, Lloyd Austin reiterated American criticism of the latest developments in Tunisia, report concordant media sources.
“We can feel these headwinds in Tunisia, whose people have inspired the world with their democratic demands,” he said.
He said that “the United States is committed to supporting our friends in Tunisia, and everywhere in Africa, who are trying to build open, accountable, and inclusive democratic regimes. “.
The head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, and the US Ambassador-designate to Tunisia Joey R. Hood, had criticized the political process in Tunisia after the referendum.
Tunisia pointed to “interference in its internal affairs”. The Chargé d’Affaires of the United States Embassy in Tunis, Natasha Franceschi, had been summoned to the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she was informed that “these declarations oppose the principles of the Convention of Vienna Governing Diplomatic Relations”.
“Tunisia is attached to its national sovereignty, to the independence of its decision-making, and rejects any suspicion in its democratic process which is irreversible,” Othman Jarandi had affirmed to the US official.
Gnetnews
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