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Tunisian foreign minister resigns
Tunisian foreign minister resigns
Ahmed Ounaies steps down after being embroiled in controversy over compliments he paid to his French counterpart.
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Ahmed Ounaies, the Tunisian foreign
minister, has resigned from his post, just over two weeks
after first taking the job, the state news agency says.
He was embroiled in a row over compliments that he paid to Michele Alliot-Marie, his French counterpart.
"In effect, he really hasn't been pursuing his role as foreign minister for about a week now, since he made those comments, which really angered people here in Tunisia," Nazanine Moshiri, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kesserine, reported.
Tunisians suspect that the French played a role in propping up Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the former president who was forced to flee the country last month. A week before his departure, the French government had offered assistance to his security forces.
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