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Tunisian authorities and IMF reach Staff Level Agreement

Tunis - Al Maghrib Today

"The Tunisian authorities and the IMF team reached a staff-level agreement on the policies needed to complete the fourth review of Tunisia’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF),” said head of IMF staff team Björn Rother. Following a mission to Tunisia August 15-31, 2018, 31 to discuss the authorities’ policy plans under the Fourth Review of Tunisia’s economic reform program supported byRead more

Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy dismissed

Tunis - TAP

Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided Friday to dismiss Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy Khaled Gaddour, Secretary of State in charge of Mines Hachem Hmidi, the Director-General and CEO of the Tunisian Oil Activities Enterprise (ETAP), a Prime Ministry press release announced without providing further details on the causes. Chahed also decided to merge the Energy, Mines and RenewableRead more

Chahed says no red lines in war against corruption

Tunisia - TAP

"There are no red lines in the war against corruption and no one is immune," the Prime Minister warned. "We seek the rule of law and transparency," Youssef Chahed Friday said a few hours after dismissing Minister of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energies Khaled Gaddour, Secretary of State for Mines Hachem Hmidi and a number of senior officials over theRead more

Morocco, Dominican Republic Discuss Means to Bilateral Relations

Santo Domingo - Al Maghrib Today

Speaker of the House of Advisors (upper house), Hakim Benchamach, held talks on Thursday in Santo Domingo with the Dominican Foreign Affairs Minister, Miguel Octavio Vargas Maldonado. The talks focused on the means to strengthen bilateral relations and topics of common interest. On this occasion, Benchamach highlighted the quality of the relations of friendship between the two countries, noting thatRead more

Preparations underway for guarantor states summit in Tehran

Moscow - SANA

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that preparations are underway for the tripartite meeting between Russia ,Iran and the Turkish regime scheduled to be held in Tehran on September 7. Peskov told reporters on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the Head of Turkish regime Recep Tayyip Erdogan will participate in the meeting on Syria onRead more

The Syrian government has sovereign right over its territory

Sochi - SANA

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed that the Syrian government has the sovereign right over its territory, pointing out that Russia supports all efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution no.2254. In a press conference with his Eritrean counterpart Osman Saleh, Lavrov said that terrorists are preparing to use chemical weapons inRead more

Syria condemns terrorist act of assassinating President of Donetsk

Damascus - SANA

Syria condemned in strongest terms the terrorist act which led to the assassination of President of Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, affirming that it is a coward act that poses threat to security and stability of that area. “Foreign Ministry at the Syrian Arab Republic condemns in strongest terms the terrorist act which led to the assassination of President ofRead more