Unifying border passage centers between Tunis and Libya

Tunis and Libya agreed on unifying the border passages between them in Ras Gadeed area -- the only zone for the passengers to cross by land between the two states.

The Tunisian parliament ratified yesterday on an agreement according to which a unified customs center will be established in Ras Gadeed point where currently there are nearly 1000 meters that separate between the Libyan and the Tunisian centers.

Reda Koreira, the minister of the state properties and the Tunisian real estates affairs, said before the parliament that "this new step come to give push to the bilateral relations in all sectors," clarifying that the observation operations in the borders center will take place in the future in a joint building of the Libyan - Tunisian customs departments.

Koreira sees this procedure as facilitating movement of people as well as goods between the two Arab states and the services improvement.