National Defence Minister Imed Memmiche on Wednesday reiterated Tunisia’s bilateral and multilateral commitment to countries on both shores of the Mediterranean in fields of shared interest.

In his remarks during the 19th meeting of of the Ministers of Defense of the member countries of the 5+5 Initiative in Lisbon, under the presidency of Portugal.

Memmiche commended the efforts exerted made by the Portuguese authorities to achieve the goals set in the fields of training, sea and air monitoring and rescue operations, so as to develop joint operational activities between the member countries’ armies, in the service of the security and stability of the west coast of the Mediterranean.

He also hailed the work carried out by the Euro-Maghreb Centre for Strategic Research and Studies and the contribution of the Tunisian team in supervising a research project in 2023 on the new security challenges in the western Mediterranean.

The minister thanked the Italian side for its commitment to overseeing a research pr
oject in 2024 on climate change and its social, political and economic impact on 5+5 area security.

The final declaration of the meeting included a set of recommendations, the most important of which was the need to keep up efforts to scale up multilateral cooperation for the Western Mediterranean’s security.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse