A Kuwaiti- Tunisian agreement to found a joint cooperation committee

The Tunisian foreign minister Habib Bin Yahya and the Kuwaiti minister of state for foreign affairs Sheikh Muhammad Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah have signed an agreement stated to found a Tunisian- Kuwaiti joint cooperation committee.

The said committee will be in charge of consultation and coordination in political issues and cooperation in the areas of the economy, trade, investment and tourism. The committee will meet once every year alternatively in the two capitals of the two states.

The joint committee will also work for strengthening cultural and scientific cooperation and the information technology.

In a speech he delivered, Bin Yahya said that the foundation of this committee " draws the legal base necessary" for backing the Tunisian- Kuwaiti relations in various fields and to give an impetus for cooperation and planning in various areas for maintaining integration for the reciprocated benefits of the two states.

On the other hand, the Kuwait minister of state who arrived on Monday in Tunisia in an official visit which will last for two days said that the foundation of this committee will give the chance "to give more impetus" for bilateral relations basically in the field of cultural, social and economic cooperation."