Tunis — National Defence Minister Kamel Morjane Wednesday received in Tunis Brigadier General Ahmed Aoun, Executive Secretary of North Africa Sector Unit within the African intervention forces, who handed over to him a message from Lieutenant-General Abou Bakr Younes Jaber, Secretary of Libya's Interim General Defence Committee, regarding the next meeting of defence ministers of this structure's member states.

The Minister reviewed, on the occasion, the experience of Tunisia's army pertaining to participation since the 1960 in peacekeeping missions the world over under the banner of the United Nations or the African Union, stressing the importance of co-operation and consultation among the countries of the region in order to strengthen fraternal ties.

The meeting also allowed to discuss prospects of boosting fraternal co-operation between Tunisia and Libya, in materialisation of the mutual political will of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his brother Leader Mouammar Kadhafi. The meeting was attended by members of the delegation accompanying Brigadier- General Ahmed Aoun and the General Representative of Libya in Tunisia. (TAP)