Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Rebeca Grynspan expressed, during her meeting at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva with Prime Minister Najla Bouden, her organisation's willingness to simplify the measures that could enable Tunisia to benefit from its development and investment programmes and to increase the participation of Tunisian skills in the various training sessions. She also expressed UNCTAD's willingness to consolidate cooperation programmes with Tunisia and to support it in implementing its 2023-2025 development plan and vision of Tunisia 2035. Gryspan pointed out that UNCTAD studies and reports have highlighted the volume of illicit financial transfers, particularly in African countries, which have deprived these countries of the resources needed to implement development programmes, noting UNCTAD's commitment to consolidating Tunisia's efforts and supporting it at national and international level. For her part, the Prime Minister underlined the crisis that emerging countries are currently experiencing, linked essentially to excessive recourse to debt, noting the urgent need for a serious and effective international commitment to support these countries through international financing lines, while taking into account their social and financial situation, so that they can overcome their difficulties. Bouden also stressed the need to put in place a legislative framework to enable countries in difficulty to return looted and misappropriated funds abroad, reviewing the efforts made by Tunisia to return the money of the Tunisian people. The Prime Minister pointed out that a high-level meeting, in which UNCTAD will take part, will be held shortly in Tunisia. This meeting will make it possible to establish an efficient international process capable of dealing with the destructive phenomena affecting the economies of various emerging countries.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse