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The Tunisian Ministry of Trade discusses with a UN delegation the latest developments in the continental trade corridor project with Libya


Tunisian Minister of Trade, Kulthum Ben Rajab, discussed with the Assistant Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Hanan Morsi, and the Commission’s Regional Director for North Africa, Adam Al-Harika, the latest developments in the Tunisian-Libyan Continental Trade Corridor project in the trend of sub-Saharan African countries.

According to what the ministry published on its website, the discussions held in Tunisia focused on the possibility of developing partnership opportunities between Tunisia and the Economic Commission for Africa, and reviewing the developments of the Tunisian-Libyan continental trade corridor project in an effort to achieve economic integration and regional integration, according to the ministry.

The Tunisian Minister said that this project is one of the model projects to achieve economic integration and regional integration, the starting point of which will be the free zone for commercial and logistical activities in Ben Guerdane, the Ras Jedir border crossing, and the largest land crossing on the continent, which will link Tunisia and Libya to 5 landlocked African countries, namely Chad, Niger, and Mali. Burkina Faso and Central Africa.

For her part, Hanan Morsi, Assistant Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, stressed the importance of this strategic project in creating mobility at the level of trade exchange in the North African region and linking it to the rest of the continent.

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