The Political
and security theme
The
Euro-Mediterranean Charter :
The Euro-Mediterranean charter for peace and stability is
the most important theme, as part of the political and security
theme, which aims to establish an area of peace and stability
and to lay the foundations for an effective political dialogue
between the concerned countries.
Tunisia participation, in conjunction with the group of
Arab countries in the Barcelona Process, in elaborating
this charter, through the contribution presented by this
group in 1998. In addition, Tunisia presented a document
including certain amendments which it considered necessary
to be incorporated within the final version, before submitting
it to the official ministerial conference held in Marseilles
in November 2000. The final version of the charter, which
was supposed to be adopted during the conference, was not
adopted due to the political conditions and the developments
of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Fight
against terrorism :
Numerous meetings of senior officials and experts have so
far been held on the question of the fight against terrorism,
as all countries are aware of the importance and necessity
to enhance cooperation in this regard.
Tunisia took part in those meetings, and underlined the
necessity of adopting a comprehensive and multi-sided approach,
so that the Barcelona Process would adopt a code of ethics,
as was the case for the Mediterranean forum.
Tunisia indeed constitutes a model in the field of fight
against terrorism, for it has always been keen on adopting
a comprehensive approach that takes into consideration all
the dimensions of this question, not only the security dimension
of it, and on tackling the root causes of this phenomenon
such as poverty and marginalized.
