Tunisia, Algerian join higher committee to meet soon

Official sources in Tunisia have stressed that the Tunisian- Algerian joint higher committee will meet within the few coming weeks under the chairmanship of the Tunisian and Algerian prime ministers Muhammad al-Ghanoushe and Ali Bin Flis for the first time since 1996.

The sources added that the Tunisian foreign minister al-Habib Bin Yahya and the Algerian foreign minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadem have agreed to convene the meeting during their meetings held on the sideline of the meetings of the Arab Maghreb foreign ministers which concluded its meeting in Algiers on Tuesday.