SAUDI ARABIA: Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Al Jebali rules out asking Saudi Arabia to hand over ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali

Record ID: 188919

  • Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Al Jebali rules out asking Saudi Arabia to hand over ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
  • Date: 23rd February 2012
  • Summary: RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA (FEBRUARY 19, 2012) (REUTERS) TUNISIAN PRIME MINISTER, HAMADI AL JEBALI, ENTERING NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM AT THE SAUDI COUNCIL OF SAUDI COMMERCE IN RIYADH JEBALI SEATED WITH SAUDI AND TUNISIAN BUSINESSMEN (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) TUNISIAN PRIME MINISTER, HAMADI AL JEBALI, SAYING: "Saudi Arabia is a strategic corner of our foreign policy and we are not willing to sacrifice this goal for other reasons such as this one you mentioned." REPORTERS ROYAL GUARD OFFICER NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Embargoed: 9th March 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
  • Country: Saudi Arabia
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5J6VS0SCRXLFMJC3G0KXR9WTD
  • Story Text: Tunisia will not demand that Saudi Arabia hands over the the north African country's ousted autocratic leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Prime Minister Hamadi Al Jebali said on Sunday (February 19).
    Ben Ali and his wife, Leila Trabelsi, have been in Saudi Arabia since fleeing there a year ago but Jebali told a news conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh that Tunisia saw its diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia as more important than achieving his extradition.
    "Saudi Arabia is a strategic corner of our foreign policy and we are not willing to sacrifice this goal for other reasons such as this one you mentioned," said Jebali when asked by a journalist if he would call for the return of the man who ruled Tunisia for 23 years.
    Jebali is on a two day visit to Saudi Arabia to meet key Saudi leaders and businessmen.
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