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The genocide led to exodus of Hindus and
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 like to obtain know-how from India in money, there is no dignity and no future.
Information Technology. We have Colleges
Tunisia is not blessed with surplus oil
for Technology in Tunisia but India is very
reserves and in fact, we import about 50
strong in this field, we would be happy if
percent of our energy requirement.
India shares this expertise with Tunisia. We
Therefore Tunisia attaches great importance
look forward to Indian Technological
to the development of the human mind and
Institutes sharing their expertise with us
skills to make them useful to the society.
areas of modern technology like IT, Bio-
Technology, Pharmaceuticals, Nano Tech- In the tourism sector, I think the private
nology and such other new technology areas. sector in both countries must work together
We certainly look forward to achieve to promote tourism, Secondly, we must
excellence in these areas. enlarge and extend the communication flow
About conventional trade, I am keen to between Tunisia and India by means of the
give it a thrust so that bilateral trade figures internet and other modern technology,
go up in the coming days. There are many magazines, video conferences, etc., so that
opportunities and there is a lot that can be people gather more information and
achieved by Tunisia and India in this knowledge about each other. Knowledge
department. leads to the desire to interact, travel, work
and that would be good for everyone.
Since education facilities are high in our
country, we see every year a new stock of At the present, there is no direct flight
educated youth passing out from different between our two countries and people have
schools and colleges in search of employ- to travel via Europe or the Gulf Region or
ment. Our President has based his policy Turkey. The private sector can do a lot in this
keeping youth in mind for they are the pillars area by exploring ways to have direct or initiative for promoting tourism to Tunisia.
of our society tomorrow. They are the future. linked flights. One instance is that Jet The operators of both countries should
Airways will soon have direct flights to discuss, discover and establish business
We have banks in Tunisia which extend Milan—from there it is a just an hours flight
relation because it will be highly profitable to
financial support to young entrepreneurs for to Tunis.
them also. Tunisia is a wonderful place that
setting up their own business. There are
There is an agreement between the offers everything: history, culture, moder-
many initiatives that have been taken to
Tunisian and Indian governments in civil nity, sun, beach, entertainment and security.
encourage the young to become self reliant
and self employed. For instance micro-credit aviation which can support private compa- Tunisia is presently laying emphasis on
is available for setting up farms. There are nies to establish partnership and cooperation tourism from Asia because it already has a
specialised schemes and banks that finance for easy transit. The private sector has the large number of tourists travelling from
fresh graduates. There is a Bank of Solidarity advantage of responding faster and be more Europe who come primarily for the sea and
for this purpose. flexible. the sun, the beach and the weather. But
Tourism from China to Tunisia is very Tunisia offers much more.
Our President had declared that there
would be at least One Job for Each Family. well placed and we have a Tourism Office in As I had said before Tunisia is a country
For our government, the top most priority is that country. We do not have a Tourism with three thousand years of history and we
to ensure that people are gainfully employed Office in India but we look forward to one
because without one's own income and soon. The private sector needs to seize the

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