Tunis — A mission to evaluate the Tunisian judiciary system will visit Tunisia soon, said on Friday Mr. Christian Ahlund, Executive Director of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), a Swedish international association aimed at resurrecting judicial systems in post-conflict countries.

This assessment mission, which will be co-ordinated by ILAC and the "Rule of Law Initiative" programme, was proposed to Caretaker Prime Minister Béji Caid Essebsi who welcomed this initiative, Mr. Christian Ahlund told TAP News Agency.

The latter who was accompanied by the Chairman of the "Union International des Avocats" (UIA) Pascal Maurer and the Director of the "Rule of Law Initiative" programme Paul Simonett said this mission "is expected in Tunis within two months."

It will include experts, lawyers, judges and academics and will conduct "a deep assessment" of the Tunisian judiciary.

"We have already provided similar assistance to various other countries in a transitory phase," he said, mentioning, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Haiti.

For his part, Mr. Maurer underlined that this mission aims to identify Tunisia's "needs and expectations," in order to reconstruct the judicial system "without interference and in compliance with the values of rule of law, the right to defence and human rights."

This concern was also emphasised by Mr. Paul Simonett, director of the "Rule of Law Initiative" and representative of the American Bar Association who said his body operates according to countries' needs, starting from a deep conviction that "a free system is the best way to achieve a better transition."

He said, in this regard, "we are not coming to impose the American know-how and model, we rather work in consultation with international experts."