Tunis — Mr. James Zhan, Director of the Division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), said Monday on the presentation for the first time in Tunisia of the World Investment Report 2012, "Towards a News Generation of Investment Policies", that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Tunisia were marked by a regression since 2010 because of the world economic crisis, which worsened in 2011 following the Revolution.

In 2012 first quarter, the first fruits of recovery were registered with encouraging indicators, since the country benefited of 274 million dinars of investments, i.e a rise of 21% compared with the same period of 2011.

Investment and International Co-operation Minister Riadh Bettaieb asserted, at the opening of the meeting, that all the indicators related to the FDI in Tunisia resumed late May the level before 2011, a year which was registered by moments of setbacks reaching 30%.

He reminded that Tunisia adhered, last May, to the declaration of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on Investment and Multinational Enterprises, "which constitutes, he said, a significant advance towards a real alignment of the Tunisian policy in the field of investment on the international standards."