Tunisian President receives Speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives

Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali conferred Thursday in Tunis with speaker of the Moroccan House of Representatives Abdelouahed Radi on bilateral relations, the situation in the Maghreb and ways of boosting cooperation between the two countries' legislative bodies.

The Moroccan official, who arrived Wednesday in Tunisia part of a Maghreban tour that will include Libya, met earlier with his Tunisian peer and secretary general of the Tunisian ruling party, "RCD."

Talks focused on ways to reactivate the Arab Maghreb Union, Maghreb relations with the European Union and the unification of stands in the Euro-Mediterranean partnership process and projected free trade zone.