Tunisian foreign minister visits Baghdad

The Tunisian foreign minister al-Habib Bin Yahya started on Sunday evening a visit to Baghdad aimed at helping to find an outlet for the Iraqi crisis.

A Tunisian official said that President Zein al-Abidin Bin Ali delegated Bin Yahya as a special envoy for meeting with the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.

Bin Yahya is a member of the ministerial committee which stemmed from recent Arab summit held in March and is in charge of contacting members of the UN Security Council especially permanent members and the UN secretary general Kofi Annan.