Tunisia deny intention to send forces to Iraq

Tunisia yesterday denied their intention to send forces to Iraq. This was following statements by an Arab minister who asked to be anonymous, on the sideline of the ministerial meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference OIC in Istanbul this week on the readiness of the two states to send forces to Iraq.

The Tunisian foreign ministry announced that Tunisia will not take a unilateral decision in this matter, denying this matter to have been debated at the Arab league or the Organization of the Islamic Conference. A statement issued by the ministry said that " In light of what was stated by certain media on the possibility of dispatching forces to Iraq by certain Arab and Islamic states, Tunisia stresses that this issue was not debated, nor studied.