A Message from President Bin Ali to the Iraqi President

The Tunisian Foreign minister al-Habib Bin Yahya arrived on Tuesday evening to Baghdad carrying a message from the Tunisian President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali to his Iraqi counterpart Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi news agency quoted Bin Yahya as saying that the message pertains to " bilateral relations and issues of mutual concern." Worthy mentioning that the two countries signed on February 23, this year an agreement to establish a free trade zone between themselves that states to abrogate customs barriers before the productions of the two countries.

This agreement was signed during the visit held by the Iraqi vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan to Tunisia. This visit is the first by an Iraqi official at this level to Tunisia since the Gulf war in 1991.